{"id":51581,"date":"2022-12-31T01:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/30\/chinas-second-covid-wave-expected-in-rural-areas-after-lunar-new-year"},"modified":"2022-12-31T01:13:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T16:13:00","slug":"china-another-covid-wave-expected-in-rural-areas-after-lunar-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51581","title":{"rendered":"China: another Covid wave expected in rural areas after lunar new year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many city workers heading home for holiday in late January are likely to take disease with them<\/p>\n<p>China is preparing for another wave of Covid to hit its more vulnerable countryside in early 2023, as the current wave of infections <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/28\/china-hospitals-extremely-busy-amid-surging-wave-of-covid-infections\">overwhelms hospitals<\/a> and intensive care units in many cities.<\/p>\n<p>The lunar new year, China\u2019s most important holiday, falls in late January. It offers a chance of reunion after years of separation under the harsh internal travel restrictions and lockdowns of the previous zero-Covid policy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/30\/chinas-second-covid-wave-expected-in-rural-areas-after-lunar-new-year\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many city workers heading home for holiday in late January are likely to take disease with themChina is preparing for another wave of Covid to hit its more vulnerable countryside in early 2023, as the current wave of infections overwhelms hospitals and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3505,"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":[41,50,1066,2458,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-omicron-variant","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\/51581","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\/3505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51582,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51581\/revisions\/51582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}