{"id":43122,"date":"2022-04-01T08:47:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T23:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/01\/covid-lockdown-extended-for-parts-of-shanghai-as-city-struggles-to-control-omicron"},"modified":"2022-04-01T14:56:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T05:56:07","slug":"covid-lockdown-extended-for-parts-of-shanghai-as-city-struggles-to-control-omicron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43122","title":{"rendered":"Covid lockdown extended in Shanghai as outbreaks put economy on the skids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s largest city and financial powerhouse is struggling to cope with the country\u2019s worst outbreak since the start of the pandemic in Wuhan<\/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>Shanghai has been plunged into an extended lockdown and some residents face another 10 days of isolation in their homes as China\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/28\/shanghai-to-lock-down-millions-for-mass-testing-as-chinas-covid-cases-surge\"> strict zero-Covid policy <\/a>threatens to derail the country\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>The eastern half of China\u2019s biggest city had been due to emerge on Friday from a four-day lockdown aimed at crushing a persistent outbreak of the Omicron variant, but the extension was announced late on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/01\/covid-lockdown-extended-for-parts-of-shanghai-as-city-struggles-to-control-omicron\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s largest city and financial powerhouse is struggling to cope with the country\u2019s worst outbreak since the start of the pandemic in WuhanSee all our coronavirus coverageShanghai has been plunged into an extended lockdown and some residents face an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1020,"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":[41,50,1066,914,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","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\/43122","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\/1020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43142,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43122\/revisions\/43142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}