{"id":13578,"date":"2020-02-02T21:32:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T12:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/02\/chinas-reaction-to-the-coronavirus-outbreak-violates-human-rights"},"modified":"2020-02-02T21:32:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T12:32:21","slug":"chinas-reaction-to-the-coronavirus-violates-human-rights-frances-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13578","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s reaction to the coronavirus violates human rights | Frances Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WHO has praised country\u2019s response, but heavy-handed approach could make things worse<\/p>\n<p>When the World Health Organization declared the 2019nCoV coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency, it effusively praised China\u2019s response to the outbreak. The WHO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/detail\/30-01-2020-statement-on-the-second-meeting-of-the-international-health-regulations-(2005)-emergency-committee-regarding-the-outbreak-of-novel-coronavirus-(2019-ncov)\">issued<\/a> a statement welcoming the government\u2019s \u201ccommitment to transparency\u201d, and the WHO director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrTedros\/status\/1222982869871669251\">tweeted<\/a>: \u201cChina is actually setting a new standard for outbreak response.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The WHO is ignoring Chinese government suppression of human rights regarding the outbreak, including severe restrictions on freedom of expression. In turn, Chinese state media are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2020-01\/29\/c_138741582.htm\">citing<\/a> the WHO to defend its policies and try to silence criticism of its response to the outbreak, which has included rights violations that could make the situation worse.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/02\/chinas-reaction-to-the-coronavirus-outbreak-violates-human-rights\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WHO has praised country\u2019s response, but heavy-handed approach could make things worseWhen the World Health Organization declared the 2019nCoV coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency, it effusively praised China\u2019s response to the outbreak. Th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":913,"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":[41,918,50,1069,914,512,916,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-biology","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-science","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13578","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\/913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13579,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13578\/revisions\/13579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}