{"id":52693,"date":"2023-02-17T20:11:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T11:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/17\/china-victory-covid-deaths-virus"},"modified":"2023-02-17T20:11:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T11:11:08","slug":"china-claims-decisive-victory-over-covid-amid-doubt-over-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52693","title":{"rendered":"China claims \u2018decisive victory\u2019 over Covid amid doubt over figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200m people treated for virus and death rate now \u2018lowest in the world\u2019, says government<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese government has declared a \u201cdecisive victory\u201d in the battle against Covid-19, claiming it had created \u201ca miracle in the history of human civilisation\u201d in successfully steering China through the global pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The comments were made at a meeting presided over by President Xi Jinping on Thursday. The government said more than 200 million people had been treated for Covid and that China\u2019s death rate from coronavirus was \u201cthe lowest level in the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/17\/china-victory-covid-deaths-virus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200m people treated for virus and death rate now \u2018lowest in the world\u2019, says governmentThe Chinese government has declared a \u201cdecisive victory\u201d in the battle against Covid-19, claiming it had created \u201ca miracle in the history of human civilis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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-52693","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\/52693","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52694,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52693\/revisions\/52694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}