{"id":36806,"date":"2021-09-13T18:36:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T09:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/13\/china-moves-to-contain-fresh-covid-outbreak-in-south-east-fujian-province"},"modified":"2021-09-13T18:36:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T09:36:38","slug":"china-moves-to-contain-fresh-covid-outbreak-in-fujian-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36806","title":{"rendered":"China moves to contain fresh Covid outbreak in Fujian province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Measures include mass testing, suspension of transport services and closures of bars and cinemas<\/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 imposed new restrictions to contain a fresh outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant of Covid-19 in the south-eastern Fujian province, with measures including mass testing, suspended transport services and closures of bars and cinemas.<\/p>\n<p>There were at least 22 new local cases recorded in Fujian province on Monday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3148507\/latest-china-covid-19-outbreak-continues-rage-fujian-province?module=perpetual_scroll&amp;pgtype=article&amp;campaign=3148507\">The South China Morning Post<\/a> said authorities had ordered mass testing for students and teachers in the province of nearly 39 million people to be completed within a week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/13\/china-moves-to-contain-fresh-covid-outbreak-in-south-east-fujian-province\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Measures include mass testing, suspension of transport services and closures of bars and cinemasCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina has imposed new restrictions to contain a fresh outbreak of the highly infectious Delta va&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2121,"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-36806","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\/36806","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\/2121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36807,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36806\/revisions\/36807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}