{"id":42609,"date":"2022-03-19T13:01:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T04:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/19\/china-reports-first-coronavirus-deaths-in-over-a-year-amid-omicron-surge"},"modified":"2022-03-19T13:01:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T04:01:32","slug":"china-reports-first-coronavirus-deaths-in-over-a-year-amid-omicron-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42609","title":{"rendered":"China reports first coronavirus deaths in over a year amid omicron surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two deaths reported on Saturday, the first since January 2021, as China continues to pursue \u2018zero-Covid\u2019 strategy<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China\u2019s national health authorities reported two Coronavirus deaths on Saturday, the first recorded rise in the death toll since January last year, as the country battles an omicron-driven surge.<\/p>\n<p>The deaths, both in north-eastern Jilin province, bring the country\u2019s coronavirus death toll to 4,638.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/19\/china-reports-first-coronavirus-deaths-in-over-a-year-amid-omicron-surge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two deaths reported on Saturday, the first since January 2021, as China continues to pursue \u2018zero-Covid\u2019 strategySee all our coronavirus coverageChina\u2019s national health authorities reported two Coronavirus deaths on Saturday, the first recorded rise in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[41,50,1066,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-hong-kong"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42609","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42610,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42609\/revisions\/42610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}