{"id":51387,"date":"2022-12-24T14:08:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T05:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/24\/chinese-city-seeing-half-a-million-covid-cases-a-day-local-health-chief"},"modified":"2022-12-24T14:08:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T05:08:37","slug":"chinese-city-seeing-half-a-million-covid-cases-a-day-local-health-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51387","title":{"rendered":"Chinese city seeing half a million Covid cases a day \u2013 local health chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The figures reported by Qingdao\u2019s municipal health chief were in stark contrast to official statistics from the central government<\/p>\n<p>Half a million people a day are being infected with Covid-19 in a single Chinese city, a senior health official has said, in a rare and quickly censored acknowledgment that the country\u2019s wave of infections is not being reflected in official statistics.<\/p>\n<p>A news outlet operated by the ruling Communist party in Qingdao reported the municipal health chief as saying that the eastern city was seeing \u201cbetween 490,000 and 530,000\u201d new Covid cases a day.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/24\/chinese-city-seeing-half-a-million-covid-cases-a-day-local-health-chief\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The figures reported by Qingdao\u2019s municipal health chief were in stark contrast to official statistics from the central governmentHalf a million people a day are being infected with Covid-19 in a single Chinese city, a senior health official has said, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51387","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51388,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51387\/revisions\/51388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}