{"id":46703,"date":"2022-07-24T10:07:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T01:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/24\/china-says-xi-jinping-given-local-covid-jab-as-it-seeks-to-ease-vaccine-safety-fears"},"modified":"2022-07-24T10:07:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T01:07:23","slug":"china-says-xi-jinping-given-local-covid-jab-as-it-seeks-to-ease-vaccine-safety-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46703","title":{"rendered":"China says Xi Jinping given local Covid jab as it seeks to ease vaccine safety fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rare disclosure comes as China struggles to increase elderly immunisation rates amid online rumours of side-effects <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">Read all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China\u2019s Covid-19 vaccines are safe and have been given to leaders of the state and ruling Communist party, officials said, as Beijing steps up efforts to allay public concerns about safety that risk hampering its vaccination drive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina\u2019s state and party leaders have all been vaccinated against Covid-19 with domestically made shots,\u201d said Zeng Yixin, deputy head of the National Health Commission, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/24\/china-says-xi-jinping-given-local-covid-jab-as-it-seeks-to-ease-vaccine-safety-fears\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rare disclosure comes as China struggles to increase elderly immunisation rates amid online rumours of side-effects Read all our coronavirus coverageChina\u2019s Covid-19 vaccines are safe and have been given to leaders of the state and ruling Communist par&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/46703","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46704,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46703\/revisions\/46704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}