{"id":44052,"date":"2022-04-30T23:02:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T14:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/30\/beijing-bans-restaurant-dining-as-holiday-begins-in-zero-covid-clampdown"},"modified":"2022-04-30T23:02:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T14:02:19","slug":"beijing-bans-restaurant-dining-as-holiday-begins-in-zero-covid-clampdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44052","title":{"rendered":"Beijing bans restaurant dining as holiday begins in zero-Covid clampdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese capital says negative test needed to enter some public areas, sporting events and to use public transport<\/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>Restaurants across Beijing will temporarily ban dining-in and residents will need negative Covid tests to visit public spaces, officials said on Saturday, in a major ramping up of virus controls at the start of the Labour Day holiday.<\/p>\n<p>The five-day break is typically one of China\u2019s busiest travel periods, but the country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/28\/china-crack-down-price-gouging-food-shortages-covid-shanghai-lockdown\">worst Covid resurgence<\/a> since early in the pandemic is expected to keep people at home.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/30\/beijing-bans-restaurant-dining-as-holiday-begins-in-zero-covid-clampdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese capital says negative test needed to enter some public areas, sporting events and to use public transportSee all our coronavirus coverageRestaurants across Beijing will temporarily ban dining-in and residents will need negative Covid tests to v&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":856,"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":[50,1066,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/44052","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\/856"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44053,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44052\/revisions\/44053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}