{"id":18006,"date":"2020-05-09T17:19:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T08:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/09\/china-to-update-disease-prevention-and-control-systems-in-wake-of-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-05-09T17:19:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T08:19:18","slug":"china-says-it-will-update-disease-control-measures-in-wake-of-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18006","title":{"rendered":"China says it will update disease control measures in wake of coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior health official says virus exposed \u2018weak links\u2019 in way country manages epidemics<\/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 will reform its disease prevention and control system to address weaknesses exposed by the coronavirus outbreak, a senior health official has said.<\/p>\n<p>China has been criticised domestically and abroad for being initially slow to react to the outbreak, which started in Wuhan. The virus has now infected almost 4 million people around the world, and almost 250,0000 people have died from the Covid-19 disease it causes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/09\/china-to-update-disease-prevention-and-control-systems-in-wake-of-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior health official says virus exposed \u2018weak links\u2019 in way country manages epidemicsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina will reform its disease prevention and control system to address weaknesses exposed by the coronavi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1294,"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-18006","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\/18006","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\/1294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18009,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18006\/revisions\/18009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}