{"id":44132,"date":"2022-05-03T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/03\/outcry-in-shanghai-as-person-declared-dead-and-put-in-body-bag-found-to-be-alive"},"modified":"2022-05-03T15:00:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T06:00:27","slug":"outcry-in-shanghai-as-person-declared-dead-and-put-in-body-bag-found-to-be-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44132","title":{"rendered":"Outcry in Shanghai as person declared dead and put in body bag found to be alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incident prompts concerns over city\u2019s overwhelmed medical system during weeks-long Omicron lockdowns<\/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>Six people are under investigation in Shanghai after an elderly nursing home resident was mistakenly declared dead, put in a body bag and taken by coroners to a waiting van before mortuary workers noticed they were still alive. <\/p>\n<p>The incident, which took place on Sunday afternoon, was filmed by onlookers and footage quickly spread online, sparking a furious backlash in the city which has been under a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/29\/china-xi-jinping-zero-covid-lockdown-vaccination\">gruelling lockdown for five weeks<\/a>. It also prompted concerns over the city\u2019s overwhelmed medical system.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/03\/outcry-in-shanghai-as-person-declared-dead-and-put-in-body-bag-found-to-be-alive\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incident prompts concerns over city\u2019s overwhelmed medical system during weeks-long Omicron lockdownsSee all our coronavirus coverageSix people are under investigation in Shanghai after an elderly nursing home resident was mistakenly declared dead, put &#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-44132","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\/44132","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=44132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44133,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44132\/revisions\/44133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}