{"id":25203,"date":"2020-11-29T16:15:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T07:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/29\/a-year-after-wuhan-alarm-china-seeks-to-change-covid-origin-story"},"modified":"2020-11-29T16:15:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T07:15:21","slug":"a-year-after-wuhan-alarm-china-seeks-to-change-covid-origin-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25203","title":{"rendered":"A year after Wuhan alarm, China seeks to change Covid origin story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports in state media signal an intensifying propaganda effort to place the birth of the virus in other countries<\/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>Nearly a year after doctors identified the first cases of a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/11\/china-mystery-illness-outbreak-causes-first-death\" title=\"\"> worrying new disease in the Chinese city of Wuhan<\/a>, the country appears to be stepping up a campaign to question the origins of the global Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>State media has been reporting intensively on coronavirus discovered on packaging of frozen food imports, not considered a significant vector of infection elsewhere, and research into possible cases of the disease found outside China\u2019s borders before December 2019.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/29\/a-year-after-wuhan-alarm-china-seeks-to-change-covid-origin-story\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports in state media signal an intensifying propaganda effort to place the birth of the virus in other countriesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNearly a year after doctors identified the first cases of a worrying new disea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1722,"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":[41,50,1066,914,238,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-media","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\/25203","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\/1722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25204,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25203\/revisions\/25204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}