{"id":50774,"date":"2022-12-01T13:44:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T04:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/01\/chinas-vice-premier-signals-shift-in-covid-stance-as-some-lockdowns-eased"},"modified":"2022-12-01T22:04:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T13:04:06","slug":"chinas-vice-premier-signals-shift-in-covid-stance-as-some-lockdowns-eased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50774","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s vice-premier signals shift in Covid stance as some lockdowns eased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sun Chunlan says Omicron less pathogenic as Beijing appears to respond to protests<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/china-zero-covid-policy-explained-30-seconds-lockdowns-outbreaks\">China\u2019s zero-Covid policy explained in 30 seconds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of China\u2019s most senior pandemic response officials has said the country is entering a \u201cnew stage and mission\u201d, in the latest indication of the government\u2019s changing approach after mass protests against its zero-Covid policy.<\/p>\n<p>Sun Chunlan, China\u2019s vice-premier, made the comments to national health officials on Wednesday, according to the Xinhau state media outlet. It came as several regions, including Shanghai, began to lift lockdowns despite continuing high case numbers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/01\/chinas-vice-premier-signals-shift-in-covid-stance-as-some-lockdowns-eased\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sun Chunlan says Omicron less pathogenic as Beijing appears to respond to protestsChina\u2019s zero-Covid policy explained in 30 secondsOne of China\u2019s most senior pandemic response officials has said the country is entering a \u201cnew stage and mission\u201d, in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,1066,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","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\/50774","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50783,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50774\/revisions\/50783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}