{"id":32610,"date":"2021-05-30T17:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T08:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/30\/china-forces-pace-of-vaccinations-with-persuasion-and-some-cash"},"modified":"2021-05-30T17:00:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T08:00:49","slug":"china-forces-pace-of-vaccinations-with-persuasion-and-some-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32610","title":{"rendered":"China forces pace of vaccinations with persuasion \u2026 and some cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago, few had been inoculated. Now hundreds of millions have, after health warnings \u2013 and gifts<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Early in March, when the Covid vaccination rate in the UK had reached 30% of the population, China\u2019s top respiratory expert Zhong Nanshan revealed in a webinar that the figure in China was barely 3.56%.<\/p>\n<p>The low vaccination rate was worrying the country\u2019s leaders, as new variants continued to emerge across the world. By the end of February, only slightly more than 52m doses of Covid vaccines had been administered in China \u2013 a country with more than 1.4 billion people.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/30\/china-forces-pace-of-vaccinations-with-persuasion-and-some-cash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago, few had been inoculated. Now hundreds of millions have, after health warnings \u2013 and giftsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageEarly in March, when the Covid vaccination rate in the UK had reached 30% of the popula&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2113,"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":[41,50,1066,914,512,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","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\/32610","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\/2113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32611,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32610\/revisions\/32611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}