{"id":42846,"date":"2022-03-25T14:15:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T05:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/25\/frustration-with-chinas-covid-response-grows-as-daily-cases-near-5000"},"modified":"2022-03-25T14:15:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T05:15:46","slug":"frustration-with-covid-response-grows-in-china-as-daily-cases-near-5000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42846","title":{"rendered":"Frustration with Covid response grows in China as daily cases near 5,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Omicron variant takes hold, some say the country\u2019s hardline approach is causing more deaths than the virus itself<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China reported almost 5,000 Covid-19 cases on Friday, as authorities continued to battle an outbreak of the highly transmissible Omicron variant across multiple provinces and as evidence of frustration among the population grew.<\/p>\n<p>After the death of a nurse in Shanghai who was denied hospitalisation after suffering an asthma attack, many are angry that <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\">China\u2019s Covid responses<\/a> appear to be causing more deaths than the virus itself.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/25\/frustration-with-chinas-covid-response-grows-as-daily-cases-near-5000\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Omicron variant takes hold, some say the country\u2019s hardline approach is causing more deaths than the virus itselfSee all our coronavirus coverageChina reported almost 5,000 Covid-19 cases on Friday, as authorities continued to battle an outbreak&#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":[50,1066,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/42846","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=42846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42847,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42846\/revisions\/42847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}