{"id":50885,"date":"2022-12-05T12:14:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T03:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/05\/covid-is-weakening-china-state-media-claims-as-major-cities-lift-lockdowns"},"modified":"2022-12-05T19:17:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T10:17:20","slug":"covid-is-weakening-china-state-media-claims-as-major-cities-lift-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50885","title":{"rendered":"Covid is weakening, China state media claims, as major cities lift lockdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unnamed expert tells state media outlet Yicai that Covid could be downgraded from a category A disease to category C<\/p>\n<p>Coronavirus is weakening and management protocols could be downgraded, an expert on China\u2019s state media has claimed, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/28\/clashes-in-shanghai-as-protests-over-zero-covid-policy-grip-china\">unprecedented protests last week<\/a> led to a major shift in Beijing\u2019s commitment to its zero-Covid policy.<\/p>\n<p>Since January 2020, China has classified Covid-19 as a Category B infectious disease but has managed it under Category A protocols, which give local authorities the power to put patients and their close contacts into quarantine and lock down affected regions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/05\/covid-is-weakening-china-state-media-claims-as-major-cities-lift-lockdowns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unnamed expert tells state media outlet Yicai that Covid could be downgraded from a category A disease to category CCoronavirus is weakening and management protocols could be downgraded, an expert on China\u2019s state media has claimed, after unprecedented&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-science","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\/50885","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50885"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50902,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50885\/revisions\/50902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}