{"id":40346,"date":"2022-01-06T14:52:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T05:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/06\/china-fires-hospital-officials-after-pregnant-woman-loses-baby-due-to-covid-lockdown-rules"},"modified":"2022-01-06T14:52:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T05:52:36","slug":"china-fires-hospital-officials-after-pregnant-woman-loses-baby-due-to-covid-lockdown-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40346","title":{"rendered":"China fires hospital officials after pregnant woman loses baby due to Covid lockdown rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The woman was allegedly denied entry to a hospital in the city of Xi\u2019an because her negative Covid test was four hours too old<\/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>Chinese hospital officials have been fired after a pregnant woman lost her baby after she was denied entry at a Xi\u2019an hospital due to coronavirus lockdown restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>On the night of 1 January a woman in labour was denied entry to the Xi\u2019an Gaoxin hospital because her negative test result was four hours too old. She began bleeding heavily while waiting outside, and was eventually admitted but the baby died.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/06\/china-fires-hospital-officials-after-pregnant-woman-loses-baby-due-to-covid-lockdown-rules\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The woman was allegedly denied entry to a hospital in the city of Xi\u2019an because her negative Covid test was four hours too oldCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChinese hospital officials have been fired after a pregnant woman &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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-40346","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\/40346","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40347,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40346\/revisions\/40347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}