{"id":35779,"date":"2021-08-24T00:02:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T15:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/23\/china-reports-zero-symptomatic-covid-cases"},"modified":"2021-08-24T00:02:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T15:02:20","slug":"china-reports-zero-local-symptomatic-covid-cases-for-first-time-since-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35779","title":{"rendered":"China reports zero local symptomatic Covid cases for first time since July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tough measures were deployed after the recent Delta variant outbreak<\/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\u2019s health authority has reported no new locally transmitted symptomatic Covid cases for the first time since the Delta variant outbreak began in July.<\/p>\n<p>While it is unclear whether the figure will remain at zero in the weeks to come, experts said it was yet another sign that Beijing\u2019s \u201czero tolerance\u201d approach was unlikely to be changed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/23\/china-reports-zero-symptomatic-covid-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tough measures were deployed after the recent Delta variant outbreakCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina\u2019s health authority has reported no new locally transmitted symptomatic Covid cases for the first time since the Delta &#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":[41,50,1066,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35779","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\/35779","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=35779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35780,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35779\/revisions\/35780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}