{"id":40038,"date":"2021-12-23T14:03:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T05:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/23\/china-locks-down-13-million-people-in-xian-after-detecting-127-covid-cases"},"modified":"2021-12-23T14:03:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T05:03:25","slug":"china-locks-down-13-million-people-in-xian-after-detecting-127-covid-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40038","title":{"rendered":"China locks down 13 million people in Xi\u2019an after detecting 127 Covid cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snap lockdown, which prompted panic in the city, comes little over a month before Beijing is set to host the Winter Olympics<\/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>Up to 13 million people have been placed into lockdown in the city of Xi\u2019an in China, as authorities move to clamp down on the community spread of Covid-19 after 127 infections were found in a second round of mass testing.<\/p>\n<p>The snap lockdown on Thursday comes little over a month before Beijing is set to host the Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/23\/china-locks-down-13-million-people-in-xian-after-detecting-127-covid-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snap lockdown, which prompted panic in the city, comes little over a month before Beijing is set to host the Winter OlympicsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageUp to 13 million people have been placed into lockdown in the city o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2735,"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":[41,50,1066,2458,1716],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-omicron-variant","category-winter-olympics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40038","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\/2735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40039,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40038\/revisions\/40039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}