{"id":13417,"date":"2020-01-30T02:14:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T17:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/29\/mcdonalds-shuts-300-restaurants-in-china-as-coronavirus-spreads"},"modified":"2020-01-30T02:14:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T17:14:10","slug":"mcdonalds-shuts-300-restaurants-in-china-as-coronavirus-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13417","title":{"rendered":"McDonald&#8217;s shuts 300 restaurants in China as coronavirus spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fast food chain sets up epidemic task force for virus, which has killed 132 people<\/p>\n<p>McDonald\u2019s has closed hundreds of restaurants in China and added its name to the list of global companies bracing themselves for the impact of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/29\/what-is-the-coronavirus-symptoms-china-wuhan-virus-sars-infection\">coronavirus outbreak<\/a>, amid signs of a mounting economic effect alongside the human cost.<\/p>\n<p>The fast food chain said it had shut about 300 restaurants and set up a epidemic task force in response to the virus, which has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/jan\/29\/coronavirus-live-updates-china-wuhan-death-toll-cases-symptoms-treatment-evacuation-us-japanese-citizens-latest-news\">killed 132 people and infected more than 6,000<\/a>, particularly in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/29\/mcdonalds-shuts-300-restaurants-in-china-as-coronavirus-spreads\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast food chain sets up epidemic task force for virus, which has killed 132 peopleMcDonald\u2019s has closed hundreds of restaurants in China and added its name to the list of global companies bracing themselves for the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":893,"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":[41,6,50,1069,914,1074,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-mcdonalds","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\/13417","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\/893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13420,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13417\/revisions\/13420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}