{"id":42962,"date":"2022-03-28T08:44:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T23:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/28\/shanghai-to-lock-down-millions-for-mass-testing-as-chinas-covid-cases-surge"},"modified":"2022-03-28T23:50:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T14:50:43","slug":"shanghai-to-lock-down-millions-for-mass-testing-as-chinas-covid-cases-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42962","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai begins locking down millions as China\u2019s Covid cases surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China will shut down city in two stages as it sticks to a \u2018zero-Covid\u2019 strategy amid growing outbreaks<\/p>\n<p>Shanghai has begun its phased lockdown as an Omicron-fuelled Covid-19 wave spreads through mainland China\u2019s most significant financial hub, resulting in the highest caseloads in the country since the early days of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The eastern side of the Huangpu River, which divides Shanghai, would be under lockdown between Monday and Friday, officials said, followed by similar restrictions across its western side from 1 April. Massing Covid testing across the city is also under way.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/28\/shanghai-to-lock-down-millions-for-mass-testing-as-chinas-covid-cases-surge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China will shut down city in two stages as it sticks to a \u2018zero-Covid\u2019 strategy amid growing outbreaksShanghai has begun its phased lockdown as an Omicron-fuelled Covid-19 wave spreads through mainland China\u2019s most significant financial hub, resulting &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[41,50,1066,48,914,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-hong-kong","category-infectious-diseases","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\/42962","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42989,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42962\/revisions\/42989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}