{"id":45298,"date":"2022-06-09T14:47:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T05:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/09\/shanghai-to-lock-down-27-million-a-week-after-easing-covid-restrictions"},"modified":"2022-06-09T14:47:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T05:47:54","slug":"shanghai-to-lock-down-2-7-million-a-week-after-easing-covid-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45298","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai to lock down 2.7 million, a week after easing Covid restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>District of Minhang to be closed on Saturday for mass testing, sparking fears the lockdown could be prolonged if cases found<\/p>\n<p>Shanghai will lock down a district of 2.7 million people on Saturday to conduct mass coronavirus testing, city authorities said, as the Chinese metropolis struggles to fully emerge from punishing curbs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/01\/shanghais-subway-and-shops-reopen-and-streets-fill-up-after-two-month-lockdown\">The city eased many restrictions last week<\/a>, after confining most of its 25 million residents to their homes since March as China battled its worst Covid outbreak in two years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/09\/shanghai-to-lock-down-27-million-a-week-after-easing-covid-restrictions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>District of Minhang to be closed on Saturday for mass testing, sparking fears the lockdown could be prolonged if cases foundShanghai will lock down a district of 2.7 million people on Saturday to conduct mass coronavirus testing, city authorities said,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,50,1066,914,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","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\/45298","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45299,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45298\/revisions\/45299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}