{"id":45394,"date":"2022-06-13T17:03:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T08:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/13\/beijing-tests-millions-isolates-thousands-covid-outbreak--bar"},"modified":"2022-06-13T17:03:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T08:03:03","slug":"ferocious-covid-outbreak-in-beijing-traced-to-raucous-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45394","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ferocious\u2019 Covid outbreak in Beijing traced to raucous bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cluster comes week after city eased restrictions, raising fresh concerns over \u2018zero Covid\u2019 policy and economy <\/p>\n<p>Authorities in Beijing are racing to contain a Covid-19 outbreak traced to a 24-hour bar known for cheap liquor and big crowds, with millions of people facing mandatory testing and thousands under targeted lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak of nearly 200 cases linked to the Heaven Supermarket bar, which had just reopened as curbs in the Chinese capital eased last week, highlights how difficult it will be for China to make a success of its \u201czero Covid\u201d policy as much of the rest of the world tries to live with the virus.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/13\/beijing-tests-millions-isolates-thousands-covid-outbreak--bar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cluster comes week after city eased restrictions, raising fresh concerns over \u2018zero Covid\u2019 policy and economy Authorities in Beijing are racing to contain a Covid-19 outbreak traced to a 24-hour bar known for cheap liquor and big crowds, with millions &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"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-45394","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\/45394","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\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45406,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45394\/revisions\/45406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}