{"id":40656,"date":"2022-01-16T00:25:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T15:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/15\/beijing-reports-first-its-locally-transmitted-omicron-variant-case"},"modified":"2022-01-16T00:25:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T15:25:35","slug":"beijing-reports-its-first-locally-transmitted-omicron-variant-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40656","title":{"rendered":"Beijing reports its first locally transmitted Omicron variant case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Case comes city finalises preparation to host Winter Olympics, which start in three weeks<\/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>The Chinese capital, Beijing, has reported its first locally transmitted case of Omicron coronavirus variant, state media reported on Saturday, less than three weeks before the Beijing Olympic Winter Games.<\/p>\n<p>An official at the city\u2019s disease control authority said at a press conference that laboratory testing found \u201cmutations specific to the Omicron variant\u201d in the person. The authorities have since published detailed account of the patient\u2019s activity that dates back to 31 December.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/15\/beijing-reports-first-its-locally-transmitted-omicron-variant-case\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case comes city finalises preparation to host Winter Olympics, which start in three weeksCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Chinese capital, Beijing, has reported its first locally transmitted case of Omicron coronavirus va&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2113,"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":[50,1066,2464,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-winter-olympics-2022","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\/40656","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\/2113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40668,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40656\/revisions\/40668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}