{"id":13661,"date":"2020-02-04T07:26:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T22:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/03\/china-shortcomings-difficulties-coronavirus-outbreak"},"modified":"2020-02-05T03:31:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T18:31:18","slug":"chinas-leadership-admits-shortcomings-in-coronavirus-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13661","title":{"rendered":"First coronavirus death in Hong Kong as four more cities are locked down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese leadership admits \u2018shortcomings\u2019 in handling of outbreak as death toll hits 420<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/04\/is-uk-overreacting-to-coronavirus-crisis-by-telling-citizens-to-leave-china\">Is UK overreacting by telling citizens to leave China?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/04\/coronavirus-quarantine-precautions-around-the-world\">Coronavirus quarantine precautions around the world<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hong Kong reported its first death from the coronavirus and four major Chinese cities hundreds of miles from the centre ordered lockdowns as concerns about the spread of the disease mounted.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s leadership admitted \u201cshortcomings\u201d in its handling of the outbreak, with the number of infections and deaths still mounting daily. The death toll inside China has passed 420 and Britain has advised its citizens to leave the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/03\/china-shortcomings-difficulties-coronavirus-outbreak\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese leadership admits \u2018shortcomings\u2019 in handling of outbreak as death toll hits 420Is UK overreacting by telling citizens to leave China?Coronavirus quarantine precautions around the worldHong Kong reported its first death from the coronavirus and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"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":[41,50,1069,48,914,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-hong-kong","category-infectious-diseases","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\/13661","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\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13661"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13721,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13661\/revisions\/13721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}