{"id":43291,"date":"2022-04-05T22:22:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T13:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/05\/shanghai-puts-whole-city-on-lockdown-as-covid-cases-surge"},"modified":"2022-04-05T22:22:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T13:22:46","slug":"shanghai-puts-whole-city-on-lockdown-as-covid-cases-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43291","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai puts whole city on lockdown as Covid cases surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of China\u2019s most populous city complain of government\u2019s lack of organisation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Shanghai has put all its 26 million residents under lockdown in China\u2019s single-biggest city-wide imposition of the restrictions since the pandemic began as authorities admitted the difficulty in containing the fast-spreading Omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>Until this week, the megacity \u2013 also China\u2019s most populous \u2013 adopted an approach of phased lockdown. Initially, the eastern side of the Huangpu River went into lockdown between 28 March and 1 April, then the western side followed suit for another four days.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/05\/shanghai-puts-whole-city-on-lockdown-as-covid-cases-surge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of China\u2019s most populous city complain of government\u2019s lack of organisationCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageShanghai has put all its 26 million residents under lockdown in China\u2019s single-biggest city-wide imposition&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"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-43291","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\/43291","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\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43292,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43291\/revisions\/43292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}