{"id":27427,"date":"2021-01-27T19:57:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T10:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/27\/china-starts-using-anal-swabs-test-covid-high-infection-areas"},"modified":"2021-01-27T19:57:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T10:57:45","slug":"china-starts-using-anal-swabs-to-test-high-risk-people-for-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27427","title":{"rendered":"China starts using anal swabs to test &#8216;high-risk&#8217; people for Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Method can increase detection rate among infected people, senior Beijing doctor tells state TV <\/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 has begun using anal swabs to test those it considers to be at high risk of contracting Covid-19, state TV has reported.<\/p>\n<p>Officials took <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/jan\/27\/coronavirus-live-news-uk-to-quarantine-arrivals-from-high-risk-countries-as-global-covid-cases-pass-100m?page=with:block-601130648f0869215d93193e#block-601130648f0869215d93193e\">anal swabs<\/a> from residents of neighbourhoods with confirmed Covid-19 cases in Beijing last week, according to the state broadcaster CCTV, while those in designated quarantine facilities have also had the tests.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/27\/china-starts-using-anal-swabs-test-covid-high-infection-areas\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Method can increase detection rate among infected people, senior Beijing doctor tells state TV Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina has begun using anal swabs to test those it considers to be at high risk of contracting Cov&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":856,"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":[41,50,1066,346,914,299,79,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-society","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\/27427","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\/856"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27428,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27427\/revisions\/27428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}