{"id":51736,"date":"2023-01-09T14:16:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T05:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/09\/life-is-moving-forward-china-enters-new-phase-in-covid-fight-as-borders-open"},"modified":"2023-01-09T15:13:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T06:13:07","slug":"life-is-moving-forward-china-enters-new-phase-in-covid-fight-as-borders-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51736","title":{"rendered":"90% of people in China province infected with Covid, says local health official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data from the health commission for central Henan suggests 88 million people in the province may have had the virus<\/p>\n<p>Almost 90% of people in China\u2019s third most populous province have now been infected with Covid-19, a top local official has said, as the country battles an unprecedented surge in cases.<\/p>\n<p>Kan Quancheng, director of the health commission for central Henan province, told a press conference that \u201cas of January 6, 2023, the province\u2019s Covid infection rate is 89%\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/09\/life-is-moving-forward-china-enters-new-phase-in-covid-fight-as-borders-open\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data from the health commission for central Henan suggests 88 million people in the province may have had the virusAlmost 90% of people in China\u2019s third most populous province have now been infected with Covid-19, a top local official has said, as the &#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-51736","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\/51736","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=51736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51742,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51736\/revisions\/51742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}