{"id":34236,"date":"2021-07-20T13:54:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T04:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/20\/china-records-highest-number-of-covid-cases-since-january"},"modified":"2021-07-20T13:54:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T04:54:05","slug":"china-reports-highest-number-of-covid-cases-since-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34236","title":{"rendered":"China reports highest number of Covid cases since January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Confirmed cases doubled compared to a day earlier, with most imported from neighbouring Myanmar<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China has reported the highest daily tally of new confirmed Covid-19 cases since January, driven by a surge in imported infections in southwestern Yunnan province, which shares a border with Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p>Mainland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a> recorded 65 new confirmed cases for 19 July, compared with 31 a day earlier, the National Health Commission said in a statement on Tuesday. That was the most since 30 January, when 92 new cases were reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/20\/china-records-highest-number-of-covid-cases-since-january\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confirmed cases doubled compared to a day earlier, with most imported from neighbouring MyanmarCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesChina has reported the highest daily tally of new confirmed Covid-19 cases since January, driven by a surge in imported infection&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,50,1066,82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/34236","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34237,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34236\/revisions\/34237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}