{"id":51504,"date":"2022-12-28T23:16:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T14:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/dec\/28\/china-drop-zero-covid-concern-new-variants-video-report"},"modified":"2022-12-28T23:16:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T14:16:06","slug":"chinas-dropping-of-zero-covid-rule-sparks-concern-about-new-variants-video-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51504","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s dropping of zero-Covid rule sparks concern about new variants \u2013 video report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a>&nbsp;is to drop some of its toughest coronavirus restrictions \u2013 including scrapping quarantine for travellers \u2013 ending the government&#8217;s zero-Covid policy. Experts are watching nervously to see how this may affect variants and their global spread.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Japan and India are among the countries to have introduced measures to prevent an influx of cases. Beijing&#8217;s decision on Monday to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/26\/china-starts-to-drop-quarantine-requirement-for-overseas-passengers\">drop quarantine for overseas visitors from 8 January<\/a>&nbsp;has prompted concerns about the potential for new variants beyond China\u2019s borders<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/28\/chinas-move-to-open-up-travel-sparks-concern-over-spread-of-new-covid-variants\">China\u2019s move to open up travel sparks concern over spread of new Covid variants<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/dec\/28\/china-drop-zero-covid-concern-new-variants-video-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&nbsp;is to drop some of its toughest coronavirus restrictions \u2013 including scrapping quarantine for travellers \u2013 ending the government&#8217;s zero-Covid policy. Experts are watching nervously to see how this may affect variants and their global spread&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3497,"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":[50,1066,914,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/51504","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\/3497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51505,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51504\/revisions\/51505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}