{"id":42424,"date":"2022-03-14T20:43:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T11:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/14\/china-locks-down-province-of-24m-as-new-covid-infections-rise"},"modified":"2022-03-14T20:43:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T11:43:33","slug":"china-locks-down-province-of-24m-as-new-covid-infections-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42424","title":{"rendered":"China locks down province of 24m as new Covid infections rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jilin residents ordered to stay at home and reservists sent to disinfect streets as 1,437 new cases reported across China<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">All the latest coronavirus news<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China\u2019s government has ordered a province of 24 million people into lockdown as it tries to contain a Covid-19 outbreak that has spread to multiple locations.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities reported 1,437 new cases across the country, including 895 in Jilin province, which was put under lockdown measures. People living in the province have been banned from moving around, and anyone wanting to leave the province must apply for permission from police. Restrictions were already in place in two cities, Jilin and Changchun.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/14\/china-locks-down-province-of-24m-as-new-covid-infections-rise\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jilin residents ordered to stay at home and reservists sent to disinfect streets as 1,437 new cases reported across ChinaAll the latest coronavirus newsChina\u2019s government has ordered a province of 24 million people into lockdown as it tries to contain &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1648,"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":[50,1066,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42424","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\/1648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42425,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42424\/revisions\/42425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}