{"id":52091,"date":"2023-01-23T19:59:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T10:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/23\/80-of-people-in-china-caught-covid-since-early-december-say-officials"},"modified":"2023-01-23T19:59:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T10:59:19","slug":"eight-in-10-people-in-china-caught-covid-since-early-december-say-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52091","title":{"rendered":"Eight in 10 people in China caught Covid since early December, say officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reported death toll surges to 72,000 after zero-Covid restrictions lifted; some experts estimate 1m deaths<\/p>\n<p>About 80% of China\u2019s population has been infected with Covid-19 since restrictions were lifted in early December, Chinese health authorities have said.<\/p>\n<p>The figure, which equates to about 1.2 billion people, prompted some pandemic experts to estimate that more than 1 million may have died \u2013 far more than the government\u2019s official tally of about 72,000.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/23\/80-of-people-in-china-caught-covid-since-early-december-say-officials\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reported death toll surges to 72,000 after zero-Covid restrictions lifted; some experts estimate 1m deathsAbout 80% of China\u2019s population has been infected with Covid-19 since restrictions were lifted in early December, Chinese health authorities have &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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-52091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-omicron-variant","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52091","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52108,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52091\/revisions\/52108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}