{"id":42643,"date":"2022-03-19T23:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/19\/with-37-million-in-lockdown-and-covid-plans-under-fire-chinese-ask-what-comes-next"},"modified":"2022-03-19T23:00:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T14:00:28","slug":"with-37-million-in-lockdown-and-covid-plans-under-fire-chinese-ask-what-comes-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42643","title":{"rendered":"With 37 million in lockdown and Covid plans under fire, Chinese ask: what comes next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elderly residents are wary of the jab even as Omicron spreads, and critics say zero-Covid policy is not sustainable<\/p>\n<p>When nearby neighbourhoods went into lockdown, Liu Li started stocking up. The 42-year-old Chinese magazine worker bought vegetables, fruit, medicine and other supplies, adding to stores of basics she had maintained since the pandemic began. Last Sunday a resident in the community where Liu lives with her mother, in Changchun city, Jilin, tested positive. Everyone was ordered inside.<\/p>\n<p>The fresh lockdown has, so far, been OK. \u201cI live a normal life,\u201d she says. \u201cI work when there are tasks for me. If there aren\u2019t any, I talk to my mother, watch TV, or play with my cat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/19\/with-37-million-in-lockdown-and-covid-plans-under-fire-chinese-ask-what-comes-next\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elderly residents are wary of the jab even as Omicron spreads, and critics say zero-Covid policy is not sustainableWhen nearby neighbourhoods went into lockdown, Liu Li started stocking up. The 42-year-old Chinese magazine worker bought vegetables, fru&#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":[41,50,1066,1222,2458,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-older-people","category-omicron-variant","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","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\/42643","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=42643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42644,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42643\/revisions\/42644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}