{"id":51672,"date":"2023-01-06T15:22:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T06:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/06\/china-covid-wave-of-celebrity-deaths-sparks-concern-over-actual-death-toll"},"modified":"2023-01-06T15:22:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T06:22:50","slug":"china-covid-wave-of-celebrity-deaths-sparks-doubt-over-actual-toll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51672","title":{"rendered":"China Covid: wave of celebrity deaths sparks doubt over actual toll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Users of Chinese social media have questioned the country\u2019s official statistics after a surge in the number of public figures dying<\/p>\n<p>A spate of deaths among celebrities and public figures across China has sparked concerns that the actual death toll from Covid-19 may be far higher than authorities are reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Many on Chinese social media have been mourning the death of actor Gong Jintang, who died aged 83 on New Year\u2019s Day. He was known for his portrayal of Father Kang in the sitcom Kang\u2019s Family, which first aired in 2000.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/06\/china-covid-wave-of-celebrity-deaths-sparks-concern-over-actual-death-toll\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users of Chinese social media have questioned the country\u2019s official statistics after a surge in the number of public figures dyingA spate of deaths among celebrities and public figures across China has sparked concerns that the actual death toll from &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3489,"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-51672","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\/51672","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\/3489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51673,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51672\/revisions\/51673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}