{"id":53426,"date":"2023-03-15T02:58:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T17:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/14\/doctor-who-exposed-chinas-cover-up-of-sars-crisis-dies-aged-91"},"modified":"2023-03-15T02:58:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T17:58:26","slug":"doctor-who-exposed-chinas-cover-up-of-sars-crisis-dies-aged-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53426","title":{"rendered":"Doctor who exposed China\u2019s cover-up of Sars crisis dies aged 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Jiang Yanyong revealed true extent of 2003 outbreak and was put under house arrest for denouncing Tiananmen Square massacre<\/p>\n<p>A military surgeon who exposed the Chinese government\u2019s cover-up of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) epidemic 20 years ago and lived for years under intermittent house arrest has died in Beijing. He was 91.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Jiang Yanyong died of pneumonia and other illnesses on Saturday, according to two of his friends. A person who answered the phone at his home confirmed his death but declined to talk further. Jiang had been in ill health in the past few years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/14\/doctor-who-exposed-chinas-cover-up-of-sars-crisis-dies-aged-91\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Jiang Yanyong revealed true extent of 2003 outbreak and was put under house arrest for denouncing Tiananmen Square massacreA military surgeon who exposed the Chinese government\u2019s cover-up of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) epidemic 20 y&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"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":[50,1066,1037,431,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-sars","category-tiananmen-square-protests-1989","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\/53426","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53430,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53426\/revisions\/53430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}