{"id":51309,"date":"2022-12-21T09:50:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T00:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/21\/china-covid-infection-surge-puts-end-of-global-emergency-in-doubt-who"},"modified":"2022-12-21T09:50:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T00:50:57","slug":"china-covid-infection-surge-puts-end-of-global-emergency-in-doubt-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51309","title":{"rendered":"China Covid infection surge puts end of global emergency in doubt \u2013 WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US offers assistance to China where experts warn there could be a million Covid-19 deaths in 2023<\/p>\n<p>It may be too early to declare the global end of the Covid-19 pandemic emergency because of a potentially devastating wave to come in China, according to several leading scientists and World Health Organization advisers.<\/p>\n<p>Their views represent a shift since China began to dismantle its zero-Covid policy last week after a spike in infections and unprecedented public protests. Projections have suggested the world\u2019s second-largest economy could face more than a million deaths in 2023 after the abrupt change in course.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/21\/china-covid-infection-surge-puts-end-of-global-emergency-in-doubt-who\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US offers assistance to China where experts warn there could be a million Covid-19 deaths in 2023It may be too early to declare the global end of the Covid-19 pandemic emergency because of a potentially devastating wave to come in China, according to s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,50,1066,914,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-world-health-organization","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\/51309","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51335,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51309\/revisions\/51335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}