{"id":34530,"date":"2021-07-29T15:05:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T06:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/29\/city-of-nanjing-isolated-as-china-fights-worst-covid-outbreak-in-months"},"modified":"2021-07-29T15:05:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T06:05:20","slug":"city-of-nanjing-isolated-as-china-fights-worst-covid-outbreak-in-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34530","title":{"rendered":"City of Nanjing isolated as China fights worst Covid outbreak in months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flights have reportedly been cancelled and checkpoints set up to verify travellers\u2019 health status amid Delta <\/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>Health authorities in China have set up checkpoints and reportedly suspended flights in the eastern city of Nanjing in the country\u2019s worst coronavirus emergency in months.<\/p>\n<p>More than 170 people have been diagnosed with the Delta variant in the past 10 days. The main outbreak is centred on Nanjing, in Jiangsu province, but connected cases have reportedly been identified in Beijing and other provinces including Anhui, Liaoning, Sichuan and Guangdong.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/29\/city-of-nanjing-isolated-as-china-fights-worst-covid-outbreak-in-months\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flights have reportedly been cancelled and checkpoints set up to verify travellers\u2019 health status amid Delta Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHealth authorities in China have set up checkpoints and reportedly suspended flight&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34530","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=34530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34531,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34530\/revisions\/34531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}