{"id":16339,"date":"2020-03-25T15:06:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T06:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/25\/chinas-premier-warns-local-officials-not-to-cover-up-new-covid-19-cases-as-hubei-reopens"},"modified":"2020-03-25T15:06:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T06:06:36","slug":"chinas-premier-warns-local-officials-not-to-cover-up-new-covid-19-cases-as-hubei-reopens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16339","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s premier warns local officials not to &#8216;cover up&#8217; new Covid-19 cases as Hubei reopens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Li Keqiang\u2019s comments come as Hubei province &#8211; except for Wuhan &#8211; lifts travel restrictions for the first time in two months<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chinese premier Li Keqiang has warned local governments not to cover up new cases of Covid-19, as low daily rates of infection prompted the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/24\/china-to-lift-travel-restrictions-in-hubei-after-months-of-coronavirus-lockdown\"> relaxing of travel restrictions in Hubei province<\/a>, where the pandemic started.<\/p>\n<p>Li\u2019s comments came as analysts questioned the veracity of China\u2019s claims that the nation has had several days with no new domestic cases.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/25\/chinas-premier-warns-local-officials-not-to-cover-up-new-covid-19-cases-as-hubei-reopens\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Li Keqiang\u2019s comments come as Hubei province &#8211; except for Wuhan &#8211; lifts travel restrictions for the first time in two monthsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChinese premier Li Keqiang has warned local governments not to cover&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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-16339","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\/16339","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16340,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16339\/revisions\/16340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}