{"id":252259,"date":"2020-04-16T02:53:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T06:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=252259"},"modified":"2020-04-16T02:53:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T06:53:32","slug":"south-korea-holds-elections-amid-coronavirus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/04\/16\/south-korea-holds-elections-amid-coronavirus-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea holds elections amid coronavirus outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_252261\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-252261\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stephanie-nakagawa-mKFsEboJ1xA-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-252261\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stephanie-nakagawa-mKFsEboJ1xA-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stephanie-nakagawa-mKFsEboJ1xA-unsplash.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stephanie-nakagawa-mKFsEboJ1xA-unsplash-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stephanie-nakagawa-mKFsEboJ1xA-unsplash-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stephanie-nakagawa-mKFsEboJ1xA-unsplash-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-252261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">According to Yonhap News Agency, polling for 300 seats of the country&#8217;s National Assembly started at 6 a.m local time [2100GMT] and will continue until 6 p.m. [0900GMT]. (<\/figcaption><\/figure><strong>ANKARA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 South Korea held parliamentary elections on Wednesday amid the coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>According to Yonhap News Agency, polling for 300 seats of the country&#8217;s National Assembly started at 6 a.m local time [2100GMT] and will continue until 6 p.m. [0900GMT].<\/p>\n<p>Some 44 million people are expected to cast their votes wearing faces masks and gloves.<\/p>\n<p>They will also check their temperature and sanitize their hands before entering the polling station.<\/p>\n<p>More than 11 million people were allowed to cast their vote in advance to avoid crowds.<\/p>\n<p>The government has also decided to lift quarantine rules to allow around 50,000 self-isolators to cast their votes after the regular polling ends, the agency reported<\/p>\n<p>According to local media, the ruling Democratic Party is expected to secure majority seats following its recent response to the Covid-19 outbreak in the country.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea has so far confirmed 10,591 coronavirus cases with 225 fatalities, while 7,616 patients have successfully recovered.\u00a0<em><strong>(Anadolu)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA\u00a0\u2013 South Korea held parliamentary elections on Wednesday amid the coronavirus outbreak. According to Yonhap News Agency, polling for 300 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":252261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252262,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252259\/revisions\/252262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}