{"id":51138,"date":"2022-12-14T15:44:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T06:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/14\/china-says-spread-of-covid-impossible-to-track-as-infections-soar-in-beijing"},"modified":"2022-12-14T15:44:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T06:44:56","slug":"china-says-spread-of-covid-impossible-to-track-as-infections-soar-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51138","title":{"rendered":"China says spread of Covid \u2018impossible\u2019 to track as infections soar in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health officials cease recording asymptomatic cases as shortages of medical supplies and testing kits reported in wake of sudden end to strict Covid policy <\/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>The spread of Covid-19 in China is now \u201cimpossible\u201d to track, the country\u2019s health authorities have said, announcing they have stopped recording asymptomatic cases in their daily tallies.<\/p>\n<p>The admission comes amid soaring presentations to hospitals and clinics as Covid-19 spreads rapidly through the population in the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/12\/china-scraps-tracking-app-amid-widespread-dismantling-of-zero-covid-policy\">the sudden removal<\/a> of strict pandemic measures. Authorities have urged people not to seek emergency healthcare unless necessary, and announced the rollout of second boosters to elderly and vulnerable people.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/14\/china-says-spread-of-covid-impossible-to-track-as-infections-soar-in-beijing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health officials cease recording asymptomatic cases as shortages of medical supplies and testing kits reported in wake of sudden end to strict Covid policy China\u2019s zero-Covid policy explained in 30 secondsThe spread of Covid-19 in China is now \u201cimpossi&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51138","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\/51138","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=51138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51139,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51138\/revisions\/51139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}