{"id":14294,"date":"2020-02-13T01:50:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T16:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/12\/what-chinas-empty-new-coronavirus-hospitals-say-about-its-secretive-system"},"modified":"2020-02-13T01:50:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T16:50:33","slug":"what-chinas-empty-new-coronavirus-hospitals-say-about-its-secretive-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14294","title":{"rendered":"What China\u2019s empty new coronavirus hospitals say about its secretive system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even after declaring a crisis, government seemed focused on managing its image as well as the outbreak<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s two new hospitals built in as many weeks were the official face of its fight against the coronavirus in Wuhan. As the city was locked down, authorities promised that thousands of doctors would be on hand to treat 2,600 patients on the facilities\u2019 wards.<\/p>\n<p>Timelapse videos tracked the almost incomprehensibly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l2QfufpwfdY\">fast construction<\/a> of the hospitals, and state media celebrated their opening in early February. The only thing missing a week later? Patients.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/12\/what-chinas-empty-new-coronavirus-hospitals-say-about-its-secretive-system\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even after declaring a crisis, government seemed focused on managing its image as well as the outbreakChina\u2019s two new hospitals built in as many weeks were the official face of its fight against the coronavirus in Wuhan. As the city was locked down, au&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"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":[41,50,1069,54,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-press-freedom","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\/14294","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14295,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14294\/revisions\/14295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}