{"id":30167,"date":"2023-01-09T18:37:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T18:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=30167"},"modified":"2023-01-09T18:37:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T18:37:35","slug":"90-of-people-in-china-province-infected-with-covid-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2023\/01\/09\/90-of-people-in-china-province-infected-with-covid-official\/","title":{"rendered":"90% of people in China province infected with Covid: official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International Desk: Almost 90 percent of people in China&#8217;s third most populous province have now been infected with Covid-19, a top official said Monday, as the country battles an unprecedented surge in cases.<\/p>\n<p>Kan Quancheng, director of the health commission for central Henan province, told a press conference that &#8220;as of January 6, 2023, the province&#8217;s Covid infection rate is 89.0 percent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With a population of 99.4 million, the figures suggest about 88.5 million people in Henan may now have been infected.<br \/>\nVisits to fever clinics peaked on December 19, Kan said, &#8220;after which it showed a continuous downward trend&#8221;.<br \/>\nChina is battling a surge in cases following its decision last month to lift years of lockdowns, quarantines and mass testing that had hammered its economy and sparked rare nationwide protests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Desk: Almost 90 percent of people in China&rsquo;s third most populous province have now been infected with Covid-19, a top official said Monday, as the country battles an unprecedented surge in cases. Kan Quancheng, director of the health commission for central Henan province, told a press conference that &ldquo;as of January 6, 2023, the province&rsquo;s Covid infection rate is 89.0 percent.&rdquo; With a population of 99.4 million, the figures suggest about 88.5 million people in Henan may now have been infected. Visits to fever clinics peaked on December 19,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30169,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30167\/revisions\/30169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}