{"id":40214,"date":"2021-12-30T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T02:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/30\/chinese-police-parade-suspected-covid-rule-breakers-through-streets"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:00:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T02:00:46","slug":"chinese-police-parade-suspected-covid-rule-breakers-through-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40214","title":{"rendered":"Chinese police parade suspected Covid rule-breakers through streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four people are named and shamed \u2013 a banned practice \u2013 in city of Jingxi; WHO warns of \u2018trade-off\u2019 as countries cut back on isolation periods<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">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>Armed police in Jingxi, in southern <strong>China,<\/strong> have paraded four alleged violators of Covid rules through the streets, state media reported, a practice that was banned but which has resurfaced in the struggle to enforce a zero-Covid policy.<\/p>\n<p>The four men were accused of smuggling people across China\u2019s closed borders, and on Tuesday they were led through the streets wearing hazmat suits and bearing placards showing their name and photos. <a href=\"https:\/\/baijiahao.baidu.com\/s?id=1720442244060805905&amp;wfr=spider&amp;for=pc\">The state-run Guangxi daily reported<\/a> the action was designed to deter \u201cborder-related crimes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/30\/chinese-police-parade-suspected-covid-rule-breakers-through-streets\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four people are named and shamed \u2013 a banned practice \u2013 in city of Jingxi; WHO warns of \u2018trade-off\u2019 as countries cut back on isolation periodsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageArmed police in Jingxi, in southern China, have par&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[50,1066,221,2458,47,1045],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-europe","category-omicron-variant","category-us-news","category-world-health-organization"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40214","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40215,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40214\/revisions\/40215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}