{"id":43906,"date":"2022-04-26T11:23:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T02:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/26\/china-expands-covid-testing-to-almost-all-of-beijings-22-million-residents"},"modified":"2022-04-26T11:23:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T02:23:11","slug":"china-expands-covid-testing-to-almost-all-of-beijings-22-million-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43906","title":{"rendered":"China expands Covid testing to almost all of Beijing\u2019s 22 million residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Capital to undergo mass testing after 33 new locally transmitted cases as the government stick to zero-Covid strategy<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Beijing has swiftly expanded its Covid-19 mass testing from one district this week to most of the city of nearly 22 million, adding to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/25\/covid-lockdown-fears-spark-panic-buying-in-beijing-as-largest-district-begins-mass-testing\">expectations of an imminent lockdown<\/a> similar to Shanghai\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese capital began testing the residents of its most populous district, Chaoyang, on Monday. By the end of the day, even though only a fraction of the results had come out, the city decided to conduct tests on 10 other districts and one economic development zone by Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/26\/china-expands-covid-testing-to-almost-all-of-beijings-22-million-residents\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capital to undergo mass testing after 33 new locally transmitted cases as the government stick to zero-Covid strategySee all our coronavirus coverageBeijing has swiftly expanded its Covid-19 mass testing from one district this week to most of the city &#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":[41,50,1066,914,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","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\/43906","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=43906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43907,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43906\/revisions\/43907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}