{"id":50155,"date":"2022-11-12T03:11:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T18:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/11\/china-covid-rules-quarantine-periods"},"modified":"2022-11-12T03:11:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T18:11:59","slug":"china-eases-some-covid-rules-amid-growing-discontent-and-economic-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50155","title":{"rendered":"China eases some Covid rules amid growing discontent and economic pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quarantine periods shortened by two days but Beijing government \u2018will not waver\u2019 from strict zero-Covid policy<\/p>\n<p>China has eased some of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/06\/xi-jinping-attacks-doubters-as-he-doubles-down-on-chinas-zero-covid-policy\">strict Covid rules<\/a> in an apparent attempt to alleviate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/31\/china-places-millions-into-covid-lockdown-again-as-economy-continues-to-struggle\">economic pressures<\/a> and cool escalating discontent, though authorities insist their \u201cwar\u201d against the pandemic remains unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>The changes include shortening quarantine periods by two days for close contacts of infected people and for travellers arriving in the country, as well as scrapping a rule that penalises airlines for bringing in too many cases.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/11\/china-covid-rules-quarantine-periods\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quarantine periods shortened by two days but Beijing government \u2018will not waver\u2019 from strict zero-Covid policyChina has eased some of its strict Covid rules in an apparent attempt to alleviate economic pressures and cool escalating discontent, though a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"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-50155","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\/50155","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\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50156,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50155\/revisions\/50156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}