{"id":51407,"date":"2022-12-25T14:24:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T05:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/25\/china-stops-publishing-daily-covid-figures-amid-reports-of-explosion-in-cases"},"modified":"2022-12-25T14:24:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T05:24:50","slug":"china-stops-publishing-daily-covid-figures-amid-reports-of-explosion-in-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51407","title":{"rendered":"China stops publishing daily Covid figures amid reports of explosion in cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Health Commission\u2019s decision comes as the country\u2019s health system faces enormous strain after the sudden end to the zero-Covid policy<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s National Health Commission (NHC) has stopped publishing daily Covid-19 data, amid concerns about the reliability of the figures after infections exploded in the wake of an abrupt easing of tough restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRelevant Covid information will be published by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention for reference and research,\u201d the commission said in a statement, without specifying the reasons for the change or how frequently China CDC will update the public with new Covid information.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/25\/china-stops-publishing-daily-covid-figures-amid-reports-of-explosion-in-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Health Commission\u2019s decision comes as the country\u2019s health system faces enormous strain after the sudden end to the zero-Covid policyChina\u2019s National Health Commission (NHC) has stopped publishing daily Covid-19 data, amid concerns about t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[50,1066,1045],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-world-health-organization"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51407","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51408,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51407\/revisions\/51408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}