{"id":14463,"date":"2020-02-15T21:05:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T12:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/15\/coronavirus-outbreak-wuhan-china"},"modified":"2020-02-15T21:05:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T12:05:04","slug":"one-wuhan-familys-tale-of-quarantine-followed-by-infection-and-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14463","title":{"rendered":"One Wuhan family\u2019s tale of quarantine, followed by infection \u2026 and tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liu Mengdi could only look on as her relatives were ravaged by the virus. Now she has been warned to stop posting about their trauma<\/p>\n<p>Liu Mengdi, 25, has been keeping a diary of the past few weeks as the coronavirus has ravaged her home town of Wuhan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday is the sixth day of the Wuhan lockdown [the city has been under quarantine for the last three weeks]. I thought my family, prevented from going out, would at least be safe,\u201d she wrote on 29 January from Italy, where she is in her last year of university. \u201cIt never occurred to me they would not be able to escape this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/15\/coronavirus-outbreak-wuhan-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liu Mengdi could only look on as her relatives were ravaged by the virus. Now she has been warned to stop posting about their traumaLiu Mengdi, 25, has been keeping a diary of the past few weeks as the coronavirus has ravaged her home town of Wuhan.\u201cTo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"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":[41,50,1069,914,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","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\/14463","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\/319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14512,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14463\/revisions\/14512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}