{"id":40138,"date":"2021-12-27T14:19:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T05:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/27\/covid-cases-rise-in-xian-as-china-battles-biggest-community-outbreak-since-2020"},"modified":"2021-12-27T14:19:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T05:19:34","slug":"covid-cases-rise-in-xian-as-china-battles-biggest-community-outbreak-since-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40138","title":{"rendered":"Covid cases rise in Xi\u2019an as China battles biggest community outbreak since 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A strict lockdown in the city of 13 million entered its fifth day as the country continues to pursue a \u2018zero-Covid\u2019 strategy<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/dec\/27\/covid-news-live-australia-case-rise-continues-omicron-grounds-1000-more-us-flights\">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>Lockdown restrictions have been tightened in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/23\/china-locks-down-13-million-people-in-xian-after-detecting-127-covid-cases\">Chinese city of Xi\u2019an<\/a>, which is<strong> <\/strong>battling the largest community outbreak the country has seen since the initial months of the pandemic when China brought thousands of daily infections under control.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities reported 162 new community infections on Monday, up from 158 on Sunday. All but 10 of Monday\u2019s new cases were reported in Shaanxi province, where 13 million residents of the capital Xi\u2019an have been locked down for five days. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/27\/covid-cases-rise-in-xian-as-china-battles-biggest-community-outbreak-since-2020\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strict lockdown in the city of 13 million entered its fifth day as the country continues to pursue a \u2018zero-Covid\u2019 strategyCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageLockdown restrictions have been tightened in the Chinese city of Xi\u2019&#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":[41,50,1066,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40138","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\/40138","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=40138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40147,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40138\/revisions\/40147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}