{"id":43566,"date":"2022-04-15T16:31:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T07:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/15\/shanghai-residents-forced-from-homes-clash-with-police-over-covid-policy"},"modified":"2022-04-15T16:31:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T07:31:10","slug":"shanghai-residents-forced-from-homes-clash-with-police-over-covid-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43566","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai residents forced from homes clash with police over Covid policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scuffles follow complaints of food shortages and over-zealous officials forcing people into quarantine<\/p>\n<p>Videos posted on social media have showed residents of Shanghai scuffling with hazmat-suited police who were ordering them to surrender their homes to Covid-19 patients, providing a rare glimpse into rising discontent in the megacity over China\u2019s inflexible virus response.<\/p>\n<p>Shanghai, a city of 25 million and China\u2019s economic engine room, has become the heart of the country\u2019s biggest outbreak since the peak of the first virus wave in Wuhan over two years ago, rattling the country\u2019s adherence to a strict zero-Covid policy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/15\/shanghai-residents-forced-from-homes-clash-with-police-over-covid-policy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scuffles follow complaints of food shortages and over-zealous officials forcing people into quarantineVideos posted on social media have showed residents of Shanghai scuffling with hazmat-suited police who were ordering them to surrender their homes to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":456,"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":[41,50,1066,914,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","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\/43566","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\/456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43574,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43566\/revisions\/43574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}