{"id":21993,"date":"2020-08-24T14:30:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T05:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/24\/china-has-been-giving-potential-coronavirus-vaccine-to-key-workers-since-july"},"modified":"2020-08-24T18:20:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T09:20:48","slug":"china-has-been-giving-potential-coronavirus-vaccine-to-key-workers-since-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21993","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: China has been giving potential vaccine to key workers since July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Head of National Health Commission says government has authorised \u2018emergency use\u2019 of treatment for staff in high-risk jobs<\/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>The Chinese government has been administering a coronavirus vaccine candidate to selected groups of key workers since July, a senior health official has said.<\/p>\n<p>Zheng Zhongwei, the head of the National Health Commission\u2019s science and technology centre, told state media organisation CCTV on Sunday the government had authorised \u201cemergency use\u201d of a Sars-Cov-2 vaccine for workers including health workers and border officials.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/24\/china-has-been-giving-potential-coronavirus-vaccine-to-key-workers-since-july\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of National Health Commission says government has authorised \u2018emergency use\u2019 of treatment for staff in high-risk jobsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Chinese government has been administering a coronavirus vaccine ca&#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":[41,50,1069,914,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","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\/21993","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=21993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22008,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21993\/revisions\/22008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}