{"id":48303,"date":"2022-09-08T13:21:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T04:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/08\/chengdu-chinese-city-of-21m-has-covid-lockdown-extended-indefinitely"},"modified":"2022-09-08T13:21:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T04:21:51","slug":"chengdu-chinese-city-of-21m-has-covid-lockdown-extended-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48303","title":{"rendered":"Chengdu, Chinese city of 21m, has Covid lockdown extended indefinitely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No date given for end of extended lockdown in city that is a crucial supplier of Apple products<\/p>\n<p>Chengdu, the capital of the south-western Chinese province of Sichuan, has extended the coronavirus lockdown of most of its districts indefinitely as it hopes to stem further transmissions in the city of 21.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>The mega city, which has most recently battled with heatwaves, power cuts and an earthquake, was locked down on 1 September after detecting a number of cases, becoming the largest Chinese metropolis to be slapped with the curbs since Shanghai earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/08\/chengdu-chinese-city-of-21m-has-covid-lockdown-extended-indefinitely\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No date given for end of extended lockdown in city that is a crucial supplier of Apple productsChengdu, the capital of the south-western Chinese province of Sichuan, has extended the coronavirus lockdown of most of its districts indefinitely as it hope&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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-48303","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\/48303","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48304,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48303\/revisions\/48304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}