{"id":38920,"date":"2021-11-15T15:24:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T06:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/15\/outcry-in-china-after-covid-health-workers-kill-dog-while-owner-was-in-quarantine"},"modified":"2021-11-15T15:24:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T06:24:07","slug":"outcry-in-china-after-covid-health-workers-kill-dog-while-owner-was-in-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38920","title":{"rendered":"Outcry in China after Covid health workers kill dog while owner was in quarantine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say health worker has been dismissed from role, amid accusations they are overreacting as China pursues zero-Covid strategy<\/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>The killing of a pet dog whose owners were in quarantine has sparked outrage on Chinese social media and raised questions about extreme measures health authorities are taking to battle a continuing Delta outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday a resident of Shangrao, in Jianxi province, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsonweibo.com\/online-outrage-after-pet-dog-gets-killed-by-anti-epidemic-workers-in-shangrao\/\">posted allegations on Weibo<\/a> that her pet dog was beaten to death by health workers inside her apartment while she was quarantining in a hotel that didn\u2019t allow animals. In video purportedly from her apartment\u2019s security camera posted online, one of two PPE-wearing individuals is shown hitting the dog with what looks like a crowbar.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/15\/outcry-in-china-after-covid-health-workers-kill-dog-while-owner-was-in-quarantine\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say health worker has been dismissed from role, amid accusations they are overreacting as China pursues zero-Covid strategySee all our coronavirus coverageThe killing of a pet dog whose owners were in quarantine has sparked outrage on Chine&#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":[265,41,50,1066],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","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\/38920","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=38920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38941,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38920\/revisions\/38941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}