{"id":43994,"date":"2022-04-28T16:59:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T07:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/28\/china-crack-down-price-gouging-food-shortages-covid-shanghai-lockdown"},"modified":"2022-04-29T01:01:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T16:01:17","slug":"china-cracks-down-on-price-gouging-amid-food-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43994","title":{"rendered":"Beijing halts weddings and funerals and closes schools in Covid fightback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stockpiling rife as city acts in attempt to avoid Shanghai-style lockdown<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has closed schools and suspended weddings and funerals in the city of 22 million in a whirlwind effort to avoid plunging China\u2019s capital into a Shanghai-style Covid lockdown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/25\/covid-lockdown-fears-spark-panic-buying-in-beijing-as-largest-district-begins-mass-testing\">Fears that Beijing could soon be in lockdown<\/a> have already prompted widespread stockpiling, leading to shortages in some supermarkets.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/28\/china-crack-down-price-gouging-food-shortages-covid-shanghai-lockdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stockpiling rife as city acts in attempt to avoid Shanghai-style lockdownBeijing has closed schools and suspended weddings and funerals in the city of 22 million in a whirlwind effort to avoid plunging China\u2019s capital into a Shanghai-style Covid lockdo&#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":[41,50,1066,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43994","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\/43994","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=43994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44002,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43994\/revisions\/44002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}