{"id":13071,"date":"2020-01-20T09:56:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T00:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/20\/coronavirus-spreads-to-beijing-as-china-confirms-new-cases"},"modified":"2020-01-21T03:13:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T18:13:42","slug":"coronavirus-spreads-to-beijing-as-china-confirms-139-new-cases-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13071","title":{"rendered":"China confirms human-to-human transmission of coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities on alert ahead of lunar new year holiday as 139 new cases of strain detected<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s National Health Commission has confirmed human-to-human transmission of a mysterious Sars-like virus that has spread across the country and fuelled anxiety about the prospect of a major outbreak as millions begin travelling for lunar new year celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>Zhong Nanshan, a respiratory expert and head of the health commission team investigating the outbreak, confirmed that two cases of infection in China\u2019s Guangdong province had been caused by human-to-human transmission and medical staff had been infected, China\u2019s official Xinhua news agency said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/20\/coronavirus-spreads-to-beijing-as-china-confirms-new-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities on alert ahead of lunar new year holiday as 139 new cases of strain detectedChina\u2019s National Health Commission has confirmed human-to-human transmission of a mysterious Sars-like virus that has spread across the country and fuelled anxiety &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,914,1037,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-infectious-diseases","category-sars","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13071"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13096,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13071\/revisions\/13096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}