{"id":46059,"date":"2022-07-05T23:58:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T14:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/05\/china-imposes-covid-lockdown-in-xian-after-handful-of-cases"},"modified":"2022-07-05T23:58:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T14:58:42","slug":"china-imposes-covid-lockdown-in-xian-after-handful-of-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46059","title":{"rendered":"China imposes Covid lockdown in Xi\u2019an after handful of cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zero-Covid strategy shuts down north-central city of 13 million following 18 reported cases of Omicron<\/p>\n<p>Businesses, schools and restaurants in Xi\u2019an will close for one week, officials have said, after the Chinese city logged a handful of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">Covid-19<\/a> cases as outbreaks nationwide strain Beijing\u2019s zero-tolerance virus approach.<\/p>\n<p>China is the last major economy wedded to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/27\/alarm-in-beijing-after-announcement-zero-covid-policy-may-last-five-years\">zero-Covid strategy<\/a>, deploying snap lockdowns, quarantines and travel curbs in a bid to weed out new infections.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/05\/china-imposes-covid-lockdown-in-xian-after-handful-of-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zero-Covid strategy shuts down north-central city of 13 million following 18 reported cases of OmicronBusinesses, schools and restaurants in Xi\u2019an will close for one week, officials have said, after the Chinese city logged a handful of Covid-19 cases a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"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-46059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46059","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\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46067,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46059\/revisions\/46067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}