{"id":102501,"date":"2020-02-18T12:49:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T20:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/china-is-disinfecting-and-destroying-cash-to-contain-the-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-02-18T12:49:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T20:49:07","slug":"china-is-disinfecting-and-destroying-cash-to-contain-the-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/china-is-disinfecting-and-destroying-cash-to-contain-the-coronavirus","title":{"rendered":"China is disinfecting and destroying cash to contain the coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-is-disinfecting-and-destroying-cash-to-contain-the-coronavirus2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the novel coronavirus outbreak continues to batter China, the country\u2019s central bank has implemented a new strategy to contain the virus \u2014 deep cleaning and destroying potentially infected cash.<\/p>\n<p>The new measures, announced by the People\u2019s Bank of China on Saturday, aim to contain the spread of the virus, officially known as Covid-19. There is still a lot unknown about the virus, which has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/02\/16\/asia\/coronavirus-covid-19-death-toll-update-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">infected more than 71,000 people<\/a> globally and killed 1,775, the majority in China \u2014 but it appears to survive for at least several hours on surfaces, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/q-a-detail\/q-a-coronaviruses\" target=\"_blank\">World Health Organization.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is why buildings in affected areas are regularly disinfecting elevator buttons, door handles, and other commonly-touched surfaces \u2014 and why people are worried about cash, which changes hands multiple times a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the novel coronavirus outbreak continues to batter China, the country\u2019s central bank has implemented a new strategy to contain the virus \u2014 deep cleaning and destroying potentially infected cash. The new measures, announced by the People\u2019s Bank of China on Saturday, aim to contain the spread of the virus, officially known as Covid-19. There [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}