{"id":42751,"date":"2022-03-22T15:01:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T06:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/22\/china-locks-down-city-of-9-million-and-reports-4000-cases-as-omicron-tests-zero-covid-strategy"},"modified":"2022-03-22T15:01:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T06:01:18","slug":"china-locks-down-city-of-9-million-and-reports-4000-cases-as-omicron-tests-zero-covid-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42751","title":{"rendered":"China locks down city of 9 million and reports 4,000 cases as Omicron tests zero-Covid strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City of Shenyang has barred residents from leaving without a 48-hour negative test result and put all housing compounds under \u2018closed management\u2019<\/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 has locked down an industrial city of 9 million people overnight and reported more than 4,000 virus cases, as the nation\u2019s \u201czero-Covid\u201d strategy is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/13\/china-battles-worst-covid-outbreak-for-two-years-as-cases-double-in-24-hours\">confronted by an Omicron wave<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Health authorities reported 4,770 new infections across the country on Tuesday, the bulk in the north-eastern province of Jilin, as the city of Shenyang in neighbouring Liaoning province was ordered to lock down late Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/22\/china-locks-down-city-of-9-million-and-reports-4000-cases-as-omicron-tests-zero-covid-strategy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City of Shenyang has barred residents from leaving without a 48-hour negative test result and put all housing compounds under \u2018closed management\u2019See all our coronavirus coverageChina has locked down an industrial city of 9 million people overnight and &#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":[41,50,1066,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","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\/42751","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=42751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42774,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42751\/revisions\/42774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}