{"id":51487,"date":"2022-12-28T13:08:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T04:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/28\/china-hospitals-extremely-busy-amid-surging-wave-of-covid-infections"},"modified":"2022-12-28T13:08:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T04:08:14","slug":"china-hospitals-extremely-busy-amid-surging-wave-of-covid-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51487","title":{"rendered":"China hospitals \u2018extremely busy\u2019 amid surging wave of Covid infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health workers report huge jump in mostly elderly Covid patients as China adjusts to living largely without virus restrictions<\/p>\n<p>Chinese hospitals were under intense pressure as a surging wave of Covid-19 infections strained resources in the last major country to move towards treating the virus as endemic.<\/p>\n<p>In an abrupt change of policy, China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/04\/fears-of-deadly-infection-surge-as-china-abandons-zero-covid-policy\">earlier this month began dismantling<\/a> the world\u2019s strictest Covid regime of lockdowns and extensive testing, putting its battered economy on course for a complete re-opening next year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/28\/china-hospitals-extremely-busy-amid-surging-wave-of-covid-infections\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health workers report huge jump in mostly elderly Covid patients as China adjusts to living largely without virus restrictionsChinese hospitals were under intense pressure as a surging wave of Covid-19 infections strained resources in the last major co&#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":[41,50,1066,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51487","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\/51487","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=51487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51488,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51487\/revisions\/51488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}