{"id":17260,"date":"2020-04-17T13:51:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T04:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/17\/china-economy-shrinks-record-wuhan-covid-19-death-toll-rises-50-percent"},"modified":"2020-04-17T13:51:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T04:51:45","slug":"china-economy-shrinks-for-first-time-as-wuhan-covid-19-death-toll-is-increased-by-1300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17260","title":{"rendered":"China economy shrinks for first time as Wuhan Covid-19 death toll is increased by 1,300"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worst GDP fall on record comes after months of paralysis as the country went into lockdown to contain coronavirus<\/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\u2019s economy shrank 6.8% in the three months of 2020, the country\u2019s first such contraction on record and a stark sign of the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The news came as Chinese authorities revised the death toll in Wuhan, the hardest hit city and where the virus first emerged, up by 50%, to 3,869 from 2,579.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/17\/china-economy-shrinks-record-wuhan-covid-19-death-toll-rises-50-percent\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worst GDP fall on record comes after months of paralysis as the country went into lockdown to contain coronavirusCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina\u2019s economy shrank 6.8% in the three months of 2020, the country\u2019s first su&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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-17260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","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\/17260","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17261,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17260\/revisions\/17261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}