{"id":38616,"date":"2021-11-03T19:32:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T10:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/03\/beijing-school-pupils-lockdown-staff-tests-positive-covid-china"},"modified":"2021-11-03T19:32:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T10:32:35","slug":"beijing-school-pupils-in-lockdown-after-staff-tests-positive-for-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38616","title":{"rendered":"Beijing school pupils in lockdown after staff tests positive for Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parents alarmed as children held overnight before some sent to centralised quarantine for two weeks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Children as young as seven were held for hours in a Beijing school before being sent to centralised quarantine for two weeks after a staff member tested positive for Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>The incident, which drew alarm from parents and observers, came amid a rush of extreme measures imposed on the city over about 40 cases of the Delta variant, part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/02\/chinese-urged-to-stockpile-amid-ongoing-covid-outbreak\">national outbreak<\/a> affecting at least 16 of China\u2019s 31 provinces. Tighter curbs are expected after the National Health Commission reported a near three-month high on Tuesday, with 93 new local symptomatic cases, up from 54 a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/03\/beijing-school-pupils-lockdown-staff-tests-positive-covid-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents alarmed as children held overnight before some sent to centralised quarantine for two weeksCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChildren as young as seven were held for hours in a Beijing school before being sent to centr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,918,50,1066,914,512,916,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-biology","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","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\/38616","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38617,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38616\/revisions\/38617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}