{"id":44398,"date":"2022-05-11T14:58:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T05:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/11\/lifting-zero-covid-policies-in-china-could-risk-16m-deaths-says-study"},"modified":"2022-05-11T14:58:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T05:58:09","slug":"lifting-zero-covid-policies-in-china-could-risk-1-6m-deaths-says-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44398","title":{"rendered":"Lifting zero-Covid policies in China could risk 1.6m deaths, says study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities might let people isolate at home instead of quarantine centres but anger continues in Shanghai about heavy-handed tactics<\/p>\n<p>The lifting of zero-Covid policies in China would see a \u201ctsunami\u201d of infections and almost 1.6 million deaths, a study claims, citing in part China\u2019s low vaccination rate of elderly residents.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s government remains committed to a zero-Covid policy, employing resource intensive mass testing and case surveillance, and enforcing lockdowns, strict quarantine and isolation. A speech last week by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/06\/xi-jinping-attacks-doubters-as-he-doubles-down-on-chinas-zero-covid-policy\"> the president, Xi Jinping,<\/a> reaffirmed the commitment, despite the challenge posed by the Omicron variant which has already overwhelmed other countries\u2019 zero-Covid policies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/11\/lifting-zero-covid-policies-in-china-could-risk-16m-deaths-says-study\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities might let people isolate at home instead of quarantine centres but anger continues in Shanghai about heavy-handed tacticsThe lifting of zero-Covid policies in China would see a \u201ctsunami\u201d of infections and almost 1.6 million deaths, a study &#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":[50,1066],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44398","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=44398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44399,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44398\/revisions\/44399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}