{"id":16831,"date":"2020-04-04T14:58:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T05:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/04\/china-mourns-covid-19-whistleblowers-as-trump-dismisses-us-face-mask-advice"},"modified":"2020-04-04T14:58:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T05:58:15","slug":"china-mourns-covid-19-whistleblowers-as-trump-dismisses-us-face-mask-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16831","title":{"rendered":"China mourns Covid-19 whistleblowers as Trump dismisses US face mask advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of coronavirus victims are remembered in China, and Trump says he won\u2019t follow US advice that all people should wear face masks in public<\/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>China has stopped to mourn the thousands who have died in the coronavirus outbreak, including \u201cmartyrs\u201d such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/feb\/07\/coronavirus-chinese-rage-death-whistleblower-doctor-li-wenliang\">whistleblower doctor Li Wenliang<\/a>, while Donald Trump dismissed the advice of US health officials that all Americans should consider wearing masks in public.<\/p>\n<p>In Tiananmen Square and throughout the country, the national flag flew at half mast on Saturday as people stopped at 10am to bow their heads for three minutes, while car, train and ship horns sounded and air raid sirens blared in the background.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/04\/china-mourns-covid-19-whistleblowers-as-trump-dismisses-us-face-mask-advice\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of coronavirus victims are remembered in China, and Trump says he won\u2019t follow US advice that all people should wear face masks in publicCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina has stopped to mourn the thousands who &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"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":[50,1069,415,914,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-donald-trump","category-infectious-diseases","category-us-news","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\/16831","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16832,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16831\/revisions\/16832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}