{"id":43603,"date":"2022-04-16T23:42:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T14:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/16\/china-tightens-controls-as-shanghai-reports-record-covid-cases"},"modified":"2022-04-16T23:42:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T14:42:15","slug":"china-tightens-controls-as-shanghai-reports-record-covid-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43603","title":{"rendered":"China tightens controls as Shanghai reports record Covid cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan urges local government to address business concerns as ongoing restrictions hit commerce<\/p>\n<p>Shanghai reported a record number of symptomatic Covid-19 cases on Saturday and other areas across China tightened controls as the country kept up its \u201cdynamic clearance\u201d approach that aims to stamp out the highly transmissible Omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>The Zhengzhou airport economic zone, a central Chinese manufacturing area that includes Apple supplier Foxconn, announced a 14-day lockdown on Friday \u201cto be adjusted according to the epidemic situation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/16\/china-tightens-controls-as-shanghai-reports-record-covid-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan urges local government to address business concerns as ongoing restrictions hit commerceShanghai reported a record number of symptomatic Covid-19 cases on Saturday and other areas across China tightened controls as the country kept up its \u201cdynami&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"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-43603","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\/43603","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\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43604,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43603\/revisions\/43604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}