{"id":43823,"date":"2022-04-23T14:50:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T05:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/23\/taiwan-wont-go-into-lockdown-like-shanghai-despite-covid-surge-premier-says"},"modified":"2022-04-23T14:50:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T05:50:39","slug":"taiwan-wont-go-into-lockdown-like-shanghai-despite-covid-surge-premier-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43823","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan won\u2019t go into lockdown like Shanghai despite Covid surge, premier says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan opts to live with the virus in contrast to Shanghai, which has been criticised for measures taken as part of zero-Covid approach<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">Read all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Taiwan will not go into a Shanghai-like lockdown to control a rise in Covid-19 cases as the vast majority of those infected have no symptoms or show only minor symptoms, the premier, Su Tseng-chang, has said.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan has been dealing with a spike in local cases since the start of the year, but the numbers overall remain small \u2013 18,436 since 1 January for a population of some 23 million \u2013 and just four people have died.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/23\/taiwan-wont-go-into-lockdown-like-shanghai-despite-covid-surge-premier-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan opts to live with the virus in contrast to Shanghai, which has been criticised for measures taken as part of zero-Covid approachRead all our coronavirus coverageTaiwan will not go into a Shanghai-like lockdown to control a rise in Covid-19 cases&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,1066,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43823","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43824,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43823\/revisions\/43824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}