{"id":51034,"date":"2022-12-10T03:18:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T18:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/09\/excitement-and-apprehension-as-china-loosens-zero-covid-measures"},"modified":"2022-12-10T03:18:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T18:18:54","slug":"excitement-and-apprehension-as-china-loosens-zero-covid-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51034","title":{"rendered":"Excitement and apprehension as China loosens zero-Covid measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people are keen to enjoy their new freedoms, but others are fearful of a major wave of infections<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s scaling back of its zero-Covid regime has left its population reeling. Some are embracing their new freedoms, while others are struggling to overcome their fears of being infected after three years of tough restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Frustration at protracted lockdowns and mass testing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/02\/china-brings-in-emergency-level-censorship-over-zero-covid-protests\">boiled over in late November into widespread protests<\/a>, the biggest show of public discontent in decades.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/09\/excitement-and-apprehension-as-china-loosens-zero-covid-measures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people are keen to enjoy their new freedoms, but others are fearful of a major wave of infectionsChina\u2019s scaling back of its zero-Covid regime has left its population reeling. Some are embracing their new freedoms, while others are struggling to o&#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":[41,50,1066,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","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\/51034","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=51034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51035,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51034\/revisions\/51035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}