{"id":40096,"date":"2021-12-25T14:30:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T05:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/25\/chinese-city-of-xian-sees-covid-case-rise-as-it-enters-third-day-of-lockdown"},"modified":"2021-12-25T14:30:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T05:30:54","slug":"chinese-city-of-xian-sees-covid-cases-rise-as-it-enters-third-day-of-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40096","title":{"rendered":"Chinese city of Xian sees Covid cases rise as it enters third day of lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents are banned from leaving the city and non-essential workers can only leave home to buy food<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese city of Xian has reported an increase in daily Covid-19 infections and local companies have curtailed activity as the country\u2019s latest hotspot entered its third day of lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Xian, home to 13 million people, detected 75 domestically transmitted cases with confirmed symptoms on Friday, its highest daily count of the year and reversing the previous day\u2019s decline, official data showed on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/25\/chinese-city-of-xian-sees-covid-case-rise-as-it-enters-third-day-of-lockdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents are banned from leaving the city and non-essential workers can only leave home to buy foodThe Chinese city of Xian has reported an increase in daily Covid-19 infections and local companies have curtailed activity as the country\u2019s latest hotsp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/40096","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40097,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40096\/revisions\/40097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}