{"id":43450,"date":"2022-04-11T21:28:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T12:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/11\/shanghai-to-ease-lockdown-despite-surge-in-covid-cases"},"modified":"2022-04-11T21:28:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T12:28:24","slug":"shanghai-to-ease-lockdown-despite-surge-in-covid-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43450","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai to ease lockdown despite surge in Covid cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s most populous city to allow \u2018appropriate activity\u2019 in areas where there have been no cases for at least two weeks<\/p>\n<p>Shanghai authorities will start easing lockdown in some areas on Monday, despite reporting a record of more than 25,000 new Covid cases in the country\u2019s most populous city and one of its most significant financial centres.<\/p>\n<p>The metropolis of nearly 26 million people will allow what city official Gu Honghui said was \u201cappropriate activity\u201d in some neighbourhoods where there have been no positive cases for at least two weeks. Residents of these neighbourhoods are not allowed to travel to those still under severe lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/11\/shanghai-to-ease-lockdown-despite-surge-in-covid-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s most populous city to allow \u2018appropriate activity\u2019 in areas where there have been no cases for at least two weeksShanghai authorities will start easing lockdown in some areas on Monday, despite reporting a record of more than 25,000 new Covid c&#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":[50,1066,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43450","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=43450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43451,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43450\/revisions\/43451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}