{"id":130328,"date":"2021-11-10T07:24:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T15:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/china-struggles-to-contain-delta-variant-of-covid"},"modified":"2021-11-10T07:24:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T15:24:55","slug":"china-struggles-to-contain-delta-variant-of-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/china-struggles-to-contain-delta-variant-of-covid","title":{"rendered":"China struggles to contain Delta variant of COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O_JPl55Wqa8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s zero-COVID-19 policy is showing strain as health authorities struggle to contain the growing spread of the Delta variant.<br \/> At least 1,000 locally-transmitted infections have been reported since mid-October in 20 provinces, prompting strict quarantine periods and area-specific lockdowns.<br \/> The onset of winter in China\u2019s north is also helping disperse the disease.<br \/> Al Jazeera\u2019s Katrina Yu reports from Beijing, China.<\/p>\n<p>- Follow us on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEnglish\/\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEnglish\/<\/a><br \/> - Find us on Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aljazeera\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aljazeera\/<\/a><br \/> - Check our website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/\">https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#China #COVID #Delta<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s zero-COVID-19 policy is showing strain as health authorities struggle to contain the growing spread of the Delta variant. At least 1,000 locally-transmitted infections have been reported since mid-October in 20 provinces, prompting strict quarantine periods and area-specific lockdowns. The onset of winter in China\u2019s north is also helping disperse the disease. Al Jazeera\u2019s Katrina [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130328","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}