{"id":40988,"date":"2022-01-23T19:50:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T10:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/23\/beijing-authorities-conduct-mass-covid-testing-as-cases-rise-before-olympics"},"modified":"2022-01-23T19:50:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T10:50:15","slug":"beijing-authorities-conduct-mass-covid-testing-as-cases-rise-before-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40988","title":{"rendered":"Beijing authorities conduct mass Covid testing as cases rise before Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All residents of Fengtai district told to get nucleic acid tests as China\u2019s capital rushes to contain Omicron outbreak<\/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>Beijing\u2019s city government has introduced new measures to contain a recent outbreak of Covid-19, as China\u2019s capital continued to report new local cases of the virus less than two weeks before it hosts the Winter Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Nine locally transmitted cases were found in Beijing on 22 January, the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Sunday, of which six were in the city\u2019s Fengtai district.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/23\/beijing-authorities-conduct-mass-covid-testing-as-cases-rise-before-olympics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All residents of Fengtai district told to get nucleic acid tests as China\u2019s capital rushes to contain Omicron outbreakCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBeijing\u2019s city government has introduced new measures to contain a recent &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,50,1066,62,61,222,2464,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-south-korea","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\/40988","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41005,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40988\/revisions\/41005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}