{"id":1176715,"date":"2021-12-31T23:04:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T04:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1176715"},"modified":"2021-12-31T23:04:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T04:04:25","slug":"china-cancels-new-years-eve-gatherings-as-coronavirus-outbreak-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-cancels-new-years-eve-gatherings-as-coronavirus-outbreak-spreads\/","title":{"rendered":"China Cancels New Year\u2019s Eve Gatherings as Coronavirus Outbreak Spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-cancels-new-years-eve-gatherings-as-coronavirus-outbreak-spreads%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1176715&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/China-lunar-new-year-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>The Chinese government canceled New Year\u2019s Eve celebrations across the country in the face of a coronavirus wave \u2014 a sharp contrast from last year\u2019s triumphalist celebrations in Wuhan, ground zero of the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>South China Morning Post<\/span><\/i> <span>(<em>SCMP<\/em>) on Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3161716\/china-curbs-new-years-eve-celebrations-reduce-covid-19?utm_source=rss_feed\">reported<\/a> Wuhan was one of several large cities to ban large public events:<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>Happy Valley Beijing, an amusement park, announced on Weibo on Thursday that its new year party at midnight would be cancelled and the park would be closed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the eastern city of Nanjing, the Xinjiekou commercial centre cancelled its outdoor countdown and light show, and multiple temples announced they were not opening at night, encouraging people to stay safe and avoid large gatherings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u2026 The State Council, China\u2019s cabinet, said on Wednesday that travel would be restricted for those in medium and high-risk areas, and more prevention measures would be imposed generally. Local communities will be asked to step up their monitoring of returnees.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Strict lockdowns have been imposed in cities like Xi\u2019an, where residents <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/30\/china-starving-out-13-million-trapped-epicenter-coronavirus-outbreak\/\"><span>complain<\/span><\/a><span> they are on the verge of starvation because the authorities did not make necessary preparations for a prolonged quarantine.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Even as the latest outbreak prompts officials to impose panic lockdowns and ban holiday celebrations, the Chinese government continues to report unrealistically low numbers of cases. Xi\u2019an, for example, supposedly reported only 166 infections in a city of 13 million on Friday. It is the <\/span><span>official <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2021-11-06\/china-low-coronavirus-death-toll\/100587910\"><span>position<\/span><\/a><span> of the Chinese Communist government that only four people have died from Covid-19 in the past 18 months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The city of Wuhan threw an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/01\/01\/revelers-hit-the-streets-of-wuhan-the-once-epicenter-of-the-coronavirus-as-times-square-remained-empty\/\"><span>ostentatious<\/span><\/a><span> New Year\u2019s Eve celebration last year, with thousands of people packed into the streets. The festivities were presented as a sharp contrast with the nearly empty streets of New York City to emphasize China\u2019s alleged superiority at controlling the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese government canceled New Year\u2019s Eve celebrations across the country in the face of a coronavirus wave \u2014 a sharp contrast from last year\u2019s triumphalist celebrations in Wuhan, ground &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}