{"id":19372,"date":"2020-06-16T16:43:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T07:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/16\/beijing-coronavirus-outbreak-travel-restricted-china-severe-measures"},"modified":"2020-06-16T16:43:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T07:43:08","slug":"beijing-coronavirus-outbreak-travel-restricted-to-tackle-extremely-severe-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19372","title":{"rendered":"Beijing coronavirus outbreak: travel restricted to tackle &#8216;extremely severe&#8217; situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Restrictions on travel to and from China capital brought in as neighbourhoods sealed off and venues close <\/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>Beijing authorities have described the city\u2019s coronavirus outbreak as \u201cextremely severe\u201d as dozens more cases emerged, sports and entertainment sites were closed and travel was curtailed.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of the Chinese capital were fenced off on Monday night, with security checkpoints set up at residential compounds, and high-risk people \u2013 such as close contacts of diagnosed cases \u2013 prevented from leaving the city. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/16\/beijing-coronavirus-outbreak-travel-restricted-china-severe-measures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restrictions on travel to and from China capital brought in as neighbourhoods sealed off and venues close Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBeijing authorities have described the city\u2019s coronavirus outbreak as \u201cextremely sever&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19372","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=19372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19373,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19372\/revisions\/19373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}