{"id":3202,"date":"2022-11-30T05:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3202"},"modified":"2023-11-21T04:41:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T09:41:07","slug":"why-chinas-zero-covid-policy-is-finally-faltering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/why-chinas-zero-covid-policy-is-finally-faltering\/","title":{"rendered":"Why China\u2019s \u2018zero COVID\u2019 policy is finally faltering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly three years now, China has had incredible success at keeping its number of COVID deaths relatively low. So far, the country has recorded only about 6,000 deaths among 1.4&nbsp;billion people. By comparison, the U.S. has recorded more than a million deaths in a population of only 330&nbsp;million.<\/p>\n<p>China has accomplished this feat with what\u2019s known as a \u201czero COVID\u201d policy \u2013 using strict lockdowns and community-wide testing and other measures to keep case counts close to nil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly three years now, China has had incredible success at keeping its number of COVID deaths relatively low. So far, the country has recorded only about 6,000 deaths among 1.4&nbsp;billion people. By comparison, the U.S. has recorded more than a million deaths in a population of only 330&nbsp;million.<\/p>\n<p>China has accomplished this feat with what\u2019s known as a \u201czero COVID\u201d policy \u2013 using strict lockdowns and community-wide testing and other measures to keep case counts close to nil.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/why-chinas-zero-covid-policy-is-finally-faltering\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why China\u2019s \u2018zero COVID\u2019 policy is finally faltering<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[247,18,55,97,175,14,312,314],"class_list":["post-3202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-china","tag-covid-19","tag-omicron","tag-pandemic-response","tag-public-health-measures","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-zero-covid","tag-zero-covid-policies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3204,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions\/3204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}