{"id":36848,"date":"2021-09-14T12:04:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T03:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/14\/cases-double-in-new-southeast-china-covid-outbreak"},"modified":"2021-09-14T12:04:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T03:04:56","slug":"cases-double-in-new-south-east-china-covid-outbreak-linked-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36848","title":{"rendered":"Cases double in new south-east China Covid outbreak linked to school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Health Commission reports 59 new infections in Fujian, up from 22 cases the day before<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New local Covid infections have more than doubled in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a>\u2019s southeastern province of Fujian, which is battling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/13\/china-moves-to-contain-fresh-covid-outbreak-in-south-east-fujian-province\">a coronavirus outbreak<\/a> that has sparked concerns over infections among unvaccinated schoolchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Putian, a city of 3.2 million, ordered testing of all residents on Tuesday after Delta variant cases linked to a returnee from Singapore ballooned into a province-wide outbreak of more than 100 people.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/14\/cases-double-in-new-southeast-china-covid-outbreak\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Health Commission reports 59 new infections in Fujian, up from 22 cases the day beforeSee all our coronavirus coverageNew local Covid infections have more than doubled in China\u2019s southeastern province of Fujian, which is battling a coronavirus&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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-36848","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\/36848","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36849,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36848\/revisions\/36849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}