{"id":43468,"date":"2022-04-12T11:34:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T02:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/12\/us-orders-some-consulate-staff-to-leave-shanghai-as-china-covid-outbreak-worsens"},"modified":"2022-04-12T19:46:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T10:46:30","slug":"us-orders-some-consulate-staff-to-leave-shanghai-as-china-covid-outbreak-worsens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43468","title":{"rendered":"US tells some consulate staff to leave Shanghai as Covid outbreak worsens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State department cites risk of children and parents being separated as EU warns zero-Covid strategy eroding investor confidence<\/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>The US has said it has asked all its non-essential staff and their family members at the Shanghai consulate to leave, in Washington\u2019s latest response to the financial hub\u2019s handling of the worsening Covid outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>The state department ordered the departure \u201cdue to the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak\u201d there, according to a spokesperson from its Beijing embassy. \u201cIt is best for our employees and their families to be reduced in number and our operations to be scaled down as we deal with the changing circumstances on the ground,\u201d the person said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/12\/us-orders-some-consulate-staff-to-leave-shanghai-as-china-covid-outbreak-worsens\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State department cites risk of children and parents being separated as EU warns zero-Covid strategy eroding investor confidenceSee all our coronavirus coverageThe US has said it has asked all its non-essential staff and their family members at the Shan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2404,"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":[41,50,1066,45,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-us-politics","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\/43468","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\/2404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43491,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43468\/revisions\/43491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}