{"id":50324,"date":"2022-11-18T02:26:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T17:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/17\/baby-death-china-incites-anger-social-media-zero-covid-rules"},"modified":"2022-11-18T02:26:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T17:26:14","slug":"death-of-baby-in-china-incites-anger-on-social-media-over-zero-covid-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50324","title":{"rendered":"Death of baby in China incites anger on social media over \u2018zero Covid\u2019 rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four-month-old denied treatment as she tested negative for coronavirus and family was told case not urgent<\/p>\n<p>The death of a four-month-old baby in central China has stoked public anger on social media as frustrations mount over Beijing\u2019s stringent \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/11\/china-covid-rules-quarantine-periods\">dynamic zero Covid<\/a>\u201d policy, which has confined millions to their homes and sparked angry protests.<\/p>\n<p>The girl died after suffering vomiting and diarrhoea while in quarantine at a hotel in the city of Zhengzhou, according to a post by her father, Li Baoliang, on China\u2019s Twitter-like platform Weibo on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/17\/baby-death-china-incites-anger-social-media-zero-covid-rules\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four-month-old denied treatment as she tested negative for coronavirus and family was told case not urgentThe death of a four-month-old baby in central China has stoked public anger on social media as frustrations mount over Beijing\u2019s stringent \u201cdynami&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50324","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50325,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50324\/revisions\/50325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}