{"id":11949,"date":"2021-01-23T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3118908\/mass-covid-19-screening-beijing-after-two-cases-strain-found"},"modified":"2021-01-23T00:00:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T00:00:22","slug":"mass-covid-19-screening-in-beijing-after-two-cases-of-strain-found-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/23\/mass-covid-19-screening-in-beijing-after-two-cases-of-strain-found-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Covid-19 screening in Beijing after two cases of strain found in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"Authorities in the Chinese capital have started testing about 2 million people in the centre of the city after two cases of a strain of the coronavirus first detected in Britain were reported in Beijing.The rapid mass campaign started on Friday, a day before the city\u2019s legislature is expected to convene an annual meeting and with just weeks to go until the country\u2019s political heavyweights arrive in the capital for the year\u2019s most important political gatherings.\u201cAll districts and work units must\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3118908\/mass-covid-19-screening-beijing-after-two-cases-strain-found\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in the Chinese capital have started testing about 2 million people in the centre of the city after two cases of a strain of the coronavirus first detected in Britain were reported in Beijing.The rapid mass campaign started on Friday, a day &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1073,"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\/11949"}],"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\/1073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11950,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11949\/revisions\/11950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}