{"id":50660,"date":"2022-11-29T12:40:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T03:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/china-zero-covid-policy-what-is-it-and-why-lockdowns-quarantine-protests"},"modified":"2022-11-29T12:40:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T03:40:01","slug":"zero-covid-policy-why-is-china-still-having-severe-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50660","title":{"rendered":"Zero-Covid policy: why is China still having severe lockdowns?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strict measures that continue almost three years into pandemic are prompting widespread protests. Here are the factors<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s strategy of controlling Covid-19 with lockdowns, mass testing and quarantines has provoked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/28\/clashes-in-shanghai-as-protests-over-zero-covid-policy-grip-china\">greatest show of public dissent<\/a> against the ruling Communist party in decades.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, China succeeded in suppressing the virus, but then more transmissible variants emerged, and in recent weeks the outbreak has grown with record numbers of cases reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/china-zero-covid-policy-what-is-it-and-why-lockdowns-quarantine-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strict measures that continue almost three years into pandemic are prompting widespread protests. Here are the factorsChina\u2019s strategy of controlling Covid-19 with lockdowns, mass testing and quarantines has provoked the greatest show of public dissent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3462,"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":[41,50,1066,299,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-science","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50660","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\/3462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50661,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50660\/revisions\/50661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}