{"id":51065,"date":"2022-12-11T16:00:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T07:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/11\/economists-hail-end-to-zero-covid-in-china-but-huge-human-toll-is-feared"},"modified":"2022-12-11T16:00:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T07:00:27","slug":"economists-hail-end-to-zero-covid-in-china-but-huge-human-toll-is-feared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51065","title":{"rendered":"Economists hail end to zero Covid in China but huge human toll is feared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Low rate of vaccination of elderly and a lack of natural immunity mean country may be in for a bumpy ride<\/p>\n<p>Beijing\u2019s abrupt dismantling of zero-Covid controls has been welcomed by economists, even as the country braces itself for the human impact of letting the disease spread through a vulnerable population.<\/p>\n<p>The leadership\u2019s abrupt U-turn on how it handles the pandemic appears to have been triggered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/28\/china-zero-covid-police-shanghai-protests\" title=\"\">protests<\/a> against controls that began last month, a nationwide show of discontent on a scale China had not seen in decades.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/11\/economists-hail-end-to-zero-covid-in-china-but-huge-human-toll-is-feared\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low rate of vaccination of elderly and a lack of natural immunity mean country may be in for a bumpy rideBeijing\u2019s abrupt dismantling of zero-Covid controls has been welcomed by economists, even as the country braces itself for the human impact of lett&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"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":[41,6,50,1066,437,914,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-economics","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\/51065","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51066,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51065\/revisions\/51066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}