{"id":43849,"date":"2022-04-24T15:48:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T06:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/24\/shanghai-blockade-of-covid-hit-buildings-sparks-fresh-outcry"},"modified":"2022-04-24T22:04:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T13:04:15","slug":"shanghai-blockade-of-covid-hit-buildings-sparks-fresh-outcry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43849","title":{"rendered":"Beijing braces for rise in Covid cases amid outcry over Shanghai blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Official says Covid \u2018spreading invisibly\u2019 within capital as Shanghai residents complain about barriers at residential buildings<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in Beijing are on high alert for a surge in coronavirus cases amid a fresh outcry in Shanghai over buildings blockaded under China\u2019s zero Covid policy.<\/p>\n<p>The number of new cases in the capital rose by 22 on Sunday \u2013 all locally transmitted \u2013 compared with six the day before, according to official reports. Beijing authorities have so far not taken steps to lock down the capital, but they have ordered a number of gyms and after-school activity providers to suspend in-person classes. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/24\/shanghai-blockade-of-covid-hit-buildings-sparks-fresh-outcry\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official says Covid \u2018spreading invisibly\u2019 within capital as Shanghai residents complain about barriers at residential buildingsAuthorities in Beijing are on high alert for a surge in coronavirus cases amid a fresh outcry in Shanghai over buildings bloc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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-43849","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\/43849","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43862,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43849\/revisions\/43862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}