{"id":38585,"date":"2021-11-02T19:35:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T10:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/nov\/02\/coronavirus-news-live-china-tells-families-to-stock-up-amid-covid-outbreak-japans-cases-dramatically-decline"},"modified":"2021-11-02T19:35:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T10:35:04","slug":"coronavirus-news-live-china-tells-families-to-stock-up-amid-covid-outbreak-japans-cases-dramatically-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38585","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus news live: China tells families to \u2018stock up\u2019 amid Covid outbreak, Japan\u2019s cases dramatically decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China has urged its citizens to stock up on daily necessities in case of emergency; Japan will gradually ease border restrictions amid falling Covid cases<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thailand, Australia and Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/01\/thailand-reopens-to-vaccinated-tourists-after-18-months-of-covid-curbs\">ease international border restrictions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/nov\/02\/facebook-failing-to-protect-users-from-covid-misinformation-says-monitor\">Facebook failed to protect users from Covid misinformation: monitor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/01\/global-covid-19-death-toll-passes-5m\">Global Covid death toll passes 5m<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Japan relaxes restrictions after dramatic decline in cases<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/29\/covid-19-vaccine-approved-children-latest\">The US is rolling out Pfizer\/BioNTech Covid-19 jabs for children aged 5-11<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has issued some data in the UK, suggesting that the number of Covid deaths is raising. The bulletin states:<\/p>\n<p>The number of deaths from all causes in the UK in the week ending 22 October 2021 (Week 42) was 12,935, 15.4% above the average for the corresponding week in 2015 to 2019. Deaths were above the five-year average in all UK countries.<\/p>\n<p>Of all deaths registered in the week ending 22 October, 974 involved coronavirus (Covid-19), 82 more than the previous week (a 9.2% increase). Deaths involving Covid-19 accounted for around 1 in 13 deaths (7.5%).<\/p>\n<p>The policy will remain for a long time. How long it will last depends on the virus-control situation worldwide.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/nov\/02\/coronavirus-news-live-china-tells-families-to-stock-up-amid-covid-outbreak-japans-cases-dramatically-decline\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has urged its citizens to stock up on daily necessities in case of emergency; Japan will gradually ease border restrictions amid falling Covid casesThailand, Australia and Israel ease international border restrictionsFacebook failed to protect us&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2635,"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":[50,1066,88,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-japan","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","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\/38585","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\/2635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38586,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38585\/revisions\/38586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}