{"id":48619,"date":"2022-09-19T09:37:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T00:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/19\/anger-in-china-after-27-people-killed-in-covid-quarantine-bus-crash"},"modified":"2022-09-19T09:37:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T00:37:34","slug":"anger-in-china-after-27-people-killed-in-covid-quarantine-bus-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48619","title":{"rendered":"Anger in China after 27 people killed in Covid quarantine bus crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tragedy in Guizhou province became a lightning rod for social media criticism of zero-Covid policy before posts were shut down<\/p>\n<p>Anger has flared among social media users in China after 27 people died when a bus carrying them to a Covid-19 quarantine facility crashed in the south-west province of Guizhou.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/05\/china-puts-65m-people-into-semi-lockdown-ahead-of-communist-party-summit\">millions of Chinese still under tight restrictions<\/a> thanks to Beijing\u2019s strict zero-Covid strategy, the deaths in the early hours of Sunday quickly became a lightning rod for criticism of the government. Only two people have died from Covid in Guizhou <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/1090007\/china-confirmed-and-suspected-wuhan-coronavirus-cases-region\/\">in the entire pandemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/19\/anger-in-china-after-27-people-killed-in-covid-quarantine-bus-crash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tragedy in Guizhou province became a lightning rod for social media criticism of zero-Covid policy before posts were shut downAnger has flared among social media users in China after 27 people died when a bus carrying them to a Covid-19 quarantine faci&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1020,"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-48619","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\/48619","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\/1020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48620,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48619\/revisions\/48620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}