{"id":10647,"date":"2021-01-20T03:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T03:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3118377\/coronavirus-chinese-local-authorities-step-efforts-convince"},"modified":"2021-01-20T03:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T03:00:10","slug":"coronavirus-chinese-local-authorities-step-up-efforts-to-convince-migrant-workers-to-stay-put-over-lunar-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/20\/coronavirus-chinese-local-authorities-step-up-efforts-to-convince-migrant-workers-to-stay-put-over-lunar-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Chinese local authorities step up efforts to convince migrant workers to stay put over Lunar New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"Cities around China are tightening travel restrictions and encouraging migrant workers to stay where they are for the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday, as the country fights to contain the latest Covid-19 outbreak.China has been reporting 100-plus cases, most of them locally transmitted, for over a week \u2013 the highest number since the initial outbreak was contained in Wuhan in March. On Monday, the country recorded 186 local infections, including asymptomatic cases.The spike means pressure on\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3118377\/coronavirus-chinese-local-authorities-step-efforts-convince\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cities around China are tightening travel restrictions and encouraging migrant workers to stay where they are for the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday, as the country fights to contain the latest Covid-19 outbreak.China has been reporting 100-plus cases&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10648,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10647\/revisions\/10648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}