{"id":19335,"date":"2020-06-15T14:20:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T05:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/15\/beijing-lockdown-tightens-as-new-coronavirus-outbreak-spreads"},"modified":"2020-06-15T20:07:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T11:07:56","slug":"beijing-lockdown-tightens-as-new-coronavirus-outbreak-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19335","title":{"rendered":"Beijing lockdown tightens as new coronavirus outbreak spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s capital enters \u2018extraordinary period\u2019 after 36 new cases are linked to a second seafood market<\/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>Authorities in Beijing have locked down residential compounds and fired officials over a new Covid-19 outbreak, as health officials warned the risk of the outbreak worsening was \u201cvery high\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, authorities announced 49 new cases, 36 of which were linked to the Xinfadi seafood supermarket in Beijing\u2019s southern Fengtai district. The wholesale market was closed on Saturday after it was identified as being at the centre of a new cluster of cases.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/15\/beijing-lockdown-tightens-as-new-coronavirus-outbreak-spreads\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s capital enters \u2018extraordinary period\u2019 after 36 new cases are linked to a second seafood marketCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAuthorities in Beijing have locked down residential compounds and fired officials over a n&#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":[41,50,1069,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19335","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\/19335","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=19335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19342,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19335\/revisions\/19342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}