{"id":48245,"date":"2022-09-07T00:45:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T15:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/06\/china-enforces-strict-covid-lockdown-in-chengdu-despite-fatal-earthquake"},"modified":"2022-09-07T00:45:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T15:45:49","slug":"china-enforces-strict-covid-lockdown-in-chengdu-despite-fatal-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48245","title":{"rendered":"China enforces strict Covid lockdown in Chengdu despite fatal earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People prevented from leaving their apartments in the aftermath of 6.8 magnitude quake that killed up to 65<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in southwestern China\u2019s Chengdu have maintained strict Covid-19 lockdown measures on the city of 21 million despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/05\/china-earthquake-deaths-sichuan-chengdu-lockdown\">a big earthquake that killed at least 65 people in the region.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Footage circulating online on Tuesday showed workers wearing top-to-bottom protective gear preventing residents of apartment buildings from exiting through locked lobby doors after the previous day\u2019s 6.8 magnitude quake centered in the surrounding province of Sichuan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/06\/china-enforces-strict-covid-lockdown-in-chengdu-despite-fatal-earthquake\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People prevented from leaving their apartments in the aftermath of 6.8 magnitude quake that killed up to 65Authorities in southwestern China\u2019s Chengdu have maintained strict Covid-19 lockdown measures on the city of 21 million despite a big earthquake &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3309,"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":[41,50,1066,263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-earthquakes"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48245","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\/3309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48246,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48245\/revisions\/48246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}