{"id":48396,"date":"2022-09-12T08:02:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T23:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/12\/desperation-grows-in-hard-hit-chengdus-indefinite-covid-lockdown"},"modified":"2022-09-12T08:02:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T23:02:44","slug":"desperation-grows-in-hard-hit-chengdus-indefinite-covid-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48396","title":{"rendered":"Desperation grows in hard-hit Chengdu\u2019s indefinite Covid lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s city of 21 million has endured heatwaves, power cuts, quarantine and a deadly earthquake, while panic also simmers in a neighbouring province<\/p>\n<p>In the hours before the south-western Chinese city of Chengdu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/01\/china-locks-down-21-million-people-in-chengdu-in-fresh-covid-outbreak\">went into a Covid lockdown on 1 September<\/a>, residents dashed to their local markets to scramble for whatever food they could grab hold of.<\/p>\n<p>Huang, a 42-year-old university lecturer, was among those who got wind of the imminent lockdown on the internet. While she was buying meat and vegetables, someone shouted: \u201cSomeone identified as a close contact is here. This place will be locked down!\u201d She dropped the groceries, swooped up her young daughter and ran home as fast as she could.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/12\/desperation-grows-in-hard-hit-chengdus-indefinite-covid-lockdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s city of 21 million has endured heatwaves, power cuts, quarantine and a deadly earthquake, while panic also simmers in a neighbouring provinceIn the hours before the south-western Chinese city of Chengdu went into a Covid lockdown on 1 September&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3317,"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-48396","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\/48396","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\/3317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48397,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48396\/revisions\/48397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}