{"id":42394,"date":"2022-03-13T14:02:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T05:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/13\/china-battles-worst-covid-outbreak-for-two-years-as-cases-double-in-24-hours"},"modified":"2022-03-13T14:02:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T05:02:17","slug":"china-battles-worst-covid-outbreak-for-two-years-as-cases-double-in-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42394","title":{"rendered":"China battles worst Covid outbreak for two years as cases double in 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 3,400 cases were reported on Sunday, forcing shutdowns for millions of people and closure of schools in Shanghai<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>China reported nearly 3,400 daily Covid-19 cases on Sunday, double the previous day, forcing lockdowns on virus hotspots as the country contends with its gravest outbreak in two years.<\/p>\n<p>A nationwide surge in cases has seen authorities close schools in Shanghai and lock down several north-eastern cities, as almost 19 provinces battle clusters of the Omicron and Delta variants.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/13\/china-battles-worst-covid-outbreak-for-two-years-as-cases-double-in-24-hours\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 3,400 cases were reported on Sunday, forcing shutdowns for millions of people and closure of schools in ShanghaiSee all our coronavirus coverage hereChina reported nearly 3,400 daily Covid-19 cases on Sunday, double the previous day, forcing loc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42394","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42395,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42394\/revisions\/42395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}