{"id":49988,"date":"2022-11-05T00:08:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T15:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/04\/rumours-of-zero-covid-easing-spread-in-china-amid-anger-at-restrictions"},"modified":"2022-11-05T00:08:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T15:08:22","slug":"rumours-of-zero-covid-easing-spread-in-china-amid-anger-at-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49988","title":{"rendered":"Rumours of zero-Covid easing spread in China amid anger at restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite relatively low case numbers, there are reportedly about 200 lockdowns across the country<\/p>\n<p>Waves of outrage and frustration over China\u2019s lockdown measures this week have demonstrated widening cracks in the general compliance with the government\u2019s zero-Covid policy.<\/p>\n<p>Rising anger has been driven by the tragic death of a toddler, and highly public problematic lockdowns in the Henan capital, Zhengzhou. Officials were left scrambling to control the narrative, amid swirling rumours of imminent policy shifts and a former government health expert saying on Friday that \u201csubstantive changes will happen soon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/04\/rumours-of-zero-covid-easing-spread-in-china-amid-anger-at-restrictions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite relatively low case numbers, there are reportedly about 200 lockdowns across the countryWaves of outrage and frustration over China\u2019s lockdown measures this week have demonstrated widening cracks in the general compliance with the government\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[41,50,1066,914,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49988","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49989,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49988\/revisions\/49989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}