{"id":43736,"date":"2022-04-21T20:22:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T11:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/21\/tibet-builds-makeshift-covid-hospitals-amid-chinas-latest-outbreak"},"modified":"2022-04-21T20:22:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T11:22:01","slug":"tibet-builds-makeshift-covid-hospitals-amid-chinas-latest-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43736","title":{"rendered":"Tibet builds makeshift Covid hospitals amid China\u2019s latest outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The move in Tibet, which has reported one Covid case since 2020, comes as 16 million people remain in lockdown in Shanghai<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in Tibet are building massive Covid isolation and care facilities in anticipation of further outbreaks in China even though the remote territory has reported only one case during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Temporary hospitals \u2013 a key feature of China\u2019s Covid response \u2013 with at least 1,000 beds each are being built in Lhasa and Shigatse by the Chinese firm Jiangsu Qi\u2019an Construction Group. The firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qaqa.com.cn\/news\/6660.html\">said<\/a> it had been tasked with building the hospitals in late March and given \u201cless than half a month\u201d to complete them. More than 400 personnel are working across three shifts to get the job done.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/21\/tibet-builds-makeshift-covid-hospitals-amid-chinas-latest-outbreak\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The move in Tibet, which has reported one Covid case since 2020, comes as 16 million people remain in lockdown in ShanghaiAuthorities in Tibet are building massive Covid isolation and care facilities in anticipation of further outbreaks in China even t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,1066,609,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-tibet","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\/43736","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43761,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43736\/revisions\/43761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}