{"id":249402,"date":"2022-06-09T08:17:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T13:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=249402"},"modified":"2022-06-09T08:29:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T13:29:58","slug":"virus-testing-the-new-normal-as-china-sticks-to-0-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=249402","title":{"rendered":"Virus Testing The New Normal As China Sticks to &#8216;0-COVID&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING (AP) \u2014 Thousands of coronavirus testing sites have popped up on sidewalks across Beijing and other Chinese cities in the latest development in the country\u2019s \u201czero-COVID\u201d strategy. Regular testing of residents is becoming the new normal as the ruling Communist Party sticks steadfastly to the \u201czero-COVID\u201d approach that is increasingly at odds with the rest of the world. The move follows a recent outbreak in Shanghai that spread so widely that authorities locked down the entire city for two months to end it. Authorities have decided that early detection is needed if they are going to control omicron outbreaks without extreme measures that cause major economic disruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING (AP) \u2014 Thousands of coronavirus testing sites have popped up on sidewalks across Beijing and other Chinese cities in the latest development in the country\u2019s \u201czero-COVID\u201d strategy. Regular testing of residents is becoming the new normal as the ruling Communist Party sticks steadfastly to the \u201czero-COVID\u201d approach that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":249403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249409,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249402\/revisions\/249409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/249403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}