{"id":14468,"date":"2020-02-15T17:48:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T08:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/15\/chinese-banks-disinfect-banknotes-to-stop-spread-of-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-02-15T17:48:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T08:48:32","slug":"chinese-banks-disinfect-banknotes-to-stop-spread-of-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14468","title":{"rendered":"Chinese banks disinfect banknotes to stop spread of coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Used notes are being sealed and stored for up to 14 days after being disinfected, central bank says<\/p>\n<p>China is disinfecting and isolating used banknotes as part of efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus that has killed more than 1,500 people, officials have said.<\/p>\n<p>Banks use ultraviolet light or high temperatures to disinfect yuan bills, then seal and store the cash for seven to 14 days \u2013 depending on the severity of the outbreak in a particular region \u2013 before recirculating them, China\u2019s central bank said at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/15\/chinese-banks-disinfect-banknotes-to-stop-spread-of-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Used notes are being sealed and stored for up to 14 days after being disinfected, central bank saysChina is disinfecting and isolating used banknotes as part of efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus that has killed more than 1,500 people, offic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":856,"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":[41,50,1069,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","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\/14468","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\/856"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14485,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14468\/revisions\/14485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}