{"id":34772,"date":"2021-08-04T14:50:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T05:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/04\/china-shuts-down-transport-routes-as-it-battles-worst-covid-outbreak-in-months"},"modified":"2021-08-04T18:25:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T09:25:53","slug":"china-shuts-down-transport-routes-as-it-battles-worst-covid-outbreak-in-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34772","title":{"rendered":"China shuts down transport routes as it battles worst Covid outbreak in months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every province has advised residents not to leave as flights are cancelled and Beijing suspends more than a dozen rail lines<\/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 dramatically tightened travel restrictions as it seeks to control the country\u2019s worst outbreak in months, with hundreds of Delta variant cases linked to airport employees.<\/p>\n<p>The latest outbreak has so far infected more than 400 people in 25 cities, including the capital city, Beijing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/03\/china-authorities-to-test-all-wuhans-11-million-residents-amid-new-covid-cases\">and in Wuhan<\/a> for the first time since it contained the initial Covid-19 outbreak last year. Cases have been reported in 17 of the 31 provinces.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/04\/china-shuts-down-transport-routes-as-it-battles-worst-covid-outbreak-in-months\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every province has advised residents not to leave as flights are cancelled and Beijing suspends more than a dozen rail linesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina has dramatically tightened travel restrictions as it seeks to &#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":[41,50,1066,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","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\/34772","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=34772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34789,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34772\/revisions\/34789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}