{"id":26200,"date":"2020-12-30T15:03:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T06:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/30\/wuhan-nearly-490000-people-could-have-had-covid-study-finds"},"modified":"2020-12-30T15:03:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T06:03:54","slug":"wuhan-nearly-490000-people-could-have-had-covid-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26200","title":{"rendered":"Wuhan: nearly 490,000 people could have had Covid, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Official tests for antibody prevalence suggest an infection rate 10 times higher than official number <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Chinese study of coronavirus antibodies has found almost half a million people may have had Covid-19 in Wuhan, a number that is 10 times the official figure.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study of antibody prevalence, the infection rate was also far higher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/07\/liberation-as-wuhans-coronavirus-lockdown-ends-after-76-days\">in Wuhan<\/a> than surrounding areas, suggesting the virus had been well contained in the city where the outbreak first began.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/30\/wuhan-nearly-490000-people-could-have-had-covid-study-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official tests for antibody prevalence suggest an infection rate 10 times higher than official number See all our coronavirus coverageA Chinese study of coronavirus antibodies has found almost half a million people may have had Covid-19 in Wuhan, a num&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,1066,914,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","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\/26200","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26201,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26200\/revisions\/26201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}