{"id":40302,"date":"2022-01-04T17:20:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T08:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/04\/chinese-city-of-12-million-people-locked-down-after-three-covid-cases-emerge"},"modified":"2022-01-04T17:20:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T08:20:56","slug":"chinese-city-of-1-2-million-people-locked-down-after-three-covid-cases-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40302","title":{"rendered":"Chinese city of 1.2 million people locked down after three Covid cases emerge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public transport halted and cars banned in Yuzhou as China pursues zero-Covid strategy ahead of 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>Three asymptomatic cases of Covid-19 were enough for Chinese authorities to lock down a city of almost 1.2 million people on Monday, joining 13 million others in locked down Xi\u2019an, where local authorities have asked for restrictions to be tightened even further.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/01\/china-zero-covid-strategy-beijing-policy-protecting-public-health-coronavirus\">Beijing is holding on to its zero-Covid strategy<\/a> ahead of the forthcoming Winter Olympics next month, and with local officials facing sanctions or sackings over outbreaks, cases have prompted increasingly strict responses.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/04\/chinese-city-of-12-million-people-locked-down-after-three-covid-cases-emerge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public transport halted and cars banned in Yuzhou as China pursues zero-Covid strategy ahead of Winter OlympicsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThree asymptomatic cases of Covid-19 were enough for Chinese authorities to lock &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"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":[41,50,1066,914,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","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\/40302","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\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40303,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40302\/revisions\/40303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}