{"id":19403,"date":"2020-06-17T13:41:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T04:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/17\/beijing-coronavirus-outbreak-city-raises-emergency-level-and-grounds-hundreds-of-flights"},"modified":"2020-06-17T13:41:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T04:41:01","slug":"beijing-coronavirus-outbreak-city-raises-emergency-level-and-grounds-hundreds-of-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19403","title":{"rendered":"Beijing coronavirus outbreak: city raises emergency level and grounds hundreds of flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All movement in and out of the city will be \u2018strictly controlled\u2019 as dozens more test positive for Covid-19 amid fears of a second wave<\/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 capital has raised its emergency level as dozens of new coronavirus cases emerged and residents were barred from any \u201cunessential\u201d travel outside Beijing following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/16\/beijing-coronavirus-outbreak-travel-restricted-china-severe-measures\">a new outbreak of the virus<\/a> that is yet to be brought under control.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of flights were cancelled, schools suspended and all residential compounds ordered to reinstate strict screening after authorities raised the city\u2019s four-tiered Covid emergency response level from three to two on Tuesday evening. All movement in and out of the city will be \u201cstrictly controlled\u201d, officials said at the briefing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/17\/beijing-coronavirus-outbreak-city-raises-emergency-level-and-grounds-hundreds-of-flights\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All movement in and out of the city will be \u2018strictly controlled\u2019 as dozens more test positive for Covid-19 amid fears of a second waveCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina\u2019s capital has raised its emergency level as dozens &#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-19403","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\/19403","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=19403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19404,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19403\/revisions\/19404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}