{"id":50024,"date":"2022-11-06T01:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/05\/chinas-unswerving-zero-covid-rules-see-no-let-up"},"modified":"2022-11-06T01:00:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T16:00:03","slug":"chinas-unswerving-zero-covid-rules-see-no-let-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50024","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s \u2018unswerving\u2019 zero-Covid rules see no let up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unexpected announcement quashes hopes of lifting lockdowns, quarantining and rigorous testing <\/p>\n<p>Health officials in China on Saturday dashed hopes there would be a relaxation of the country\u2019s strict Covid-19 restrictions. At a news conference, they insisted China would \u201cunswervingly\u201d stick to its zero-Covid policy which includes lockdowns, quarantining and rigorous testing aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement follows several days\u2019 speculation that they were considering changing a disease containment policy that has disrupted economic growth and daily life, and is increasingly out of step with the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/05\/chinas-unswerving-zero-covid-rules-see-no-let-up\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unexpected announcement quashes hopes of lifting lockdowns, quarantining and rigorous testing Health officials in China on Saturday dashed hopes there would be a relaxation of the country\u2019s strict Covid-19 restrictions. At a news conference, they insis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3419,"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":[41,50,1066,914,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50024","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\/3419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50025,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50024\/revisions\/50025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}