{"id":34799,"date":"2021-08-05T01:55:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T16:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/04\/with-the-delta-variant-spreading-is-chinas-zero-tolerance-covid-approach-over"},"modified":"2021-08-05T01:55:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T16:55:25","slug":"with-delta-variant-spreading-is-china-zero-tolerance-approach-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34799","title":{"rendered":"With Delta variant spreading is China \u2018zero tolerance\u2019 approach over?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now it\u2019s clear the virus is not going away debate about what approach the country should adopt next is emerging<\/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>As the highly transmissible Delta variant continues to spread across at least 17 provinces, China is now facing a new dilemma: is its once-successful \u201czero tolerance\u201d approach to containing the spread of the virus over, and what comes next?<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Britain and Singapore, where officials have explicitly encouraged people to \u201clearn to live with the virus\u201d, China has yet to officially shift its messaging.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/04\/with-the-delta-variant-spreading-is-chinas-zero-tolerance-covid-approach-over\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now it\u2019s clear the virus is not going away debate about what approach the country should adopt next is emergingCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAs the highly transmissible Delta variant continues to spread across at least 17 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"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":[50,1066],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/34799","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\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34800,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34799\/revisions\/34800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}