{"id":51907,"date":"2023-01-16T14:08:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T05:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/16\/china-braces-for-covid-surge-as-lunar-new-year-travel-rush-begins"},"modified":"2023-01-16T14:08:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T05:08:06","slug":"china-braces-for-covid-surge-as-lunar-new-year-travel-rush-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51907","title":{"rendered":"China braces for Covid surge as lunar new year travel rush begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travellers leave cities for countryside amid warnings for most vulnerable and huge increase in official coronavirus death toll<\/p>\n<p>Luggage-laden passengers flocked to railway stations and airports in China\u2019s megacities on Monday, heading home for holidays that health experts fear could intensify a Covid-19 outbreak that has claimed thousands of lives.<\/p>\n<p>After three years of strict and suffocating anti-virus controls, China in early December abruptly abandoned its zero-Covid policy, letting the virus run freely through its population of 1.4 billion.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/16\/china-braces-for-covid-surge-as-lunar-new-year-travel-rush-begins\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travellers leave cities for countryside amid warnings for most vulnerable and huge increase in official coronavirus death tollLuggage-laden passengers flocked to railway stations and airports in China\u2019s megacities on Monday, heading home for holidays t&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51907","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\/51907","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=51907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51908,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51907\/revisions\/51908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}