{"id":40960,"date":"2022-01-22T16:33:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T07:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/22\/taiwan-sees-sharp-rise-in-covid-cases-posing-risk-to-lunar-new-year"},"modified":"2022-01-22T16:33:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T07:33:26","slug":"taiwan-sees-sharp-rise-in-covid-cases-posing-risk-to-lunar-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40960","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan sees sharp rise in Covid cases, posing risk to Lunar New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outbreak at factory challenges zero Covid strategy that has kept the island largely free of the disease<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan has reported a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases with a cluster among workers at a factory threatening authorities\u2019 tenuous control of an Omicron outbreak on the eve of Lunar New Year.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Taiwan\u2019s centre for disease control reported 82 domestic cases, including 63 found at the Taoyuan factory in a first round of testing on Friday. Most of those sick are migrant workers, health and welfare minister Chen Shih-chung said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/22\/taiwan-sees-sharp-rise-in-covid-cases-posing-risk-to-lunar-new-year\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outbreak at factory challenges zero Covid strategy that has kept the island largely free of the diseaseTaiwan has reported a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases with a cluster among workers at a factory threatening authorities\u2019 tenuous control of an Omicron o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[1066,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40960","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40961,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40960\/revisions\/40961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}