{"id":24280,"date":"2020-10-29T17:46:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T08:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/29\/large-covid-outbreak-in-china-linked-to-xinjiang-forced-labour"},"modified":"2020-10-29T17:46:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T08:46:04","slug":"large-covid-outbreak-in-china-linked-to-xinjiang-forced-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24280","title":{"rendered":"Large Covid outbreak in China linked to Xinjiang forced labour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 180 cases traced to garment factory where Uighurs must take up work placements<\/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 largest coronavirus outbreak in months appears to have emerged in a factory in Xinjiang linked to forced labour and the government\u2019s controversial policies towards Uighur residents.<\/p>\n<p>More than 180 cases of Covid-19 documented in the past week in Shufu county, in southern Xinjiang, can be traced back to a factory that was built in 2018 as part of government \u201cpoverty alleviation\u201d efforts, a campaign that researchers and rights advocates describe as coercive. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/29\/large-covid-outbreak-in-china-linked-to-xinjiang-forced-labour\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 180 cases traced to garment factory where Uighurs must take up work placementsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina\u2019s largest coronavirus outbreak in months appears to have emerged in a factory in Xinjiang linked t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"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":[41,50,1066,1318,67,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-forced-labour","category-uighurs","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24280","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24281,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24280\/revisions\/24281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}