{"id":40079,"date":"2021-12-24T21:15:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T12:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/24\/chinese-officials-face-punishment-over-covid-lockdown-in-xian"},"modified":"2021-12-24T21:15:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T12:15:10","slug":"chinese-officials-face-punishment-over-covid-lockdown-in-xian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40079","title":{"rendered":"Chinese officials face punishment over Covid lockdown in Xian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disciplinary body says people to be held accountable for failing in efforts to prevent and control outbreak<\/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>Officials in the north-western Chinese city of Xian are facing punishment for \u201cnot doing a good job\u201d after a Covid-19 outbreak led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/23\/china-locks-down-13-million-people-in-xian-after-detecting-127-covid-cases\">the lockdown of its 13 million residents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All domestic flights out of Xian and most trains from the city scheduled for Friday were cancelled. Officials say the outbreak has been traced to the arrival of a plane from Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/24\/chinese-officials-face-punishment-over-covid-lockdown-in-xian\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disciplinary body says people to be held accountable for failing in efforts to prevent and control outbreakCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOfficials in the north-western Chinese city of Xian are facing punishment for \u201cnot do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"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":[41,50,1066,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","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\/40079","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\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40119,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40079\/revisions\/40119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}