{"id":43461,"date":"2022-04-12T00:12:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T15:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/apr\/11\/this-cannot-last-residents-in-locked-down-shanghai-scream-from-their-balconies-video"},"modified":"2022-04-12T00:12:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T15:12:32","slug":"this-cannot-last-residents-in-locked-down-shanghai-scream-from-their-balconies-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43461","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;This cannot last&#8217;: residents in locked down Shanghai scream from their balconies \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shanghai, China&#8217;s financial hub, started easing its lockdown in some areas on Monday, despite reporting a record high of more than 25,000 new Covid-19 infections, as authorities sought to get the city moving again after more than two weeks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pressure has been building on authorities in the country&#8217;s most populous city \u2013 also one of its wealthiest \u2013 from residents growing increasingly frustrated as the curbs dragged on, leaving some struggling to find enough food and medicine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Footage circulating online showed people screaming from their balconies, with the person filming claiming it was because people had grown tired of China&#8217;s strict lockdown rules.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/11\/shanghai-to-ease-lockdown-despite-surge-in-covid-cases?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\">Shanghai to ease lockdown despite surge in Covid cases<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/apr\/11\/this-cannot-last-residents-in-locked-down-shanghai-scream-from-their-balconies-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shanghai, China&#8217;s financial hub, started easing its lockdown in some areas on Monday, despite reporting a record high of more than 25,000 new Covid-19 infections, as authorities sought to get the city moving again after more than two weeks.&nbsp;Pressu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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-43461","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\/43461","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43462,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43461\/revisions\/43462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}