{"id":1406170,"date":"2022-03-29T02:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1406170"},"modified":"2022-03-29T02:00:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T06:00:11","slug":"capital-of-chinas-jilin-province-apologises-for-food-shortages-due-to-covid-curbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/capital-of-chinas-jilin-province-apologises-for-food-shortages-due-to-covid-curbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital of China\u2019s Jilin province apologises for food shortages due to COVID curbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fcapital-of-chinas-jilin-province-apologises-for-food-shortages-due-to-covid-curbs%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=1406170&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>FILE PHOTO: A man undergoes nucleic acid testing during a citywide mass testing for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Changchun, Jilin province, China March 13, 2022. cnsphoto via REUTERS\/File Photo<\/div>\n<p>March 29, 2022<\/p>\n<p>BEIJING (Reuters) \u2013     The Chinese city of Changchun, capital of the COVID-hit northeastern province of Jilin, on Tuesday apologised to its 8.5 million residents for food shortages related to shutdowns and disruption caused by COVID-related containment measures. <\/p>\n<p>Due to COVID-19, two major wholesale food markets in Changchun have shuttered, leading to a shortfall in food supply, said the city\u2019s deputy Communist Party secretary, Liu Renyuan, a problem aggravated by a shortage of workers that has delayed deliveries to homes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are particularly anxious and angry about this, and we express our deep apologies to the public for the impact and inconvenience caused,\u201d Liu said at a local news conference. <\/p>\n<p>To ease the dearth of sorting and delivery personnel, the provincial government of Jilin has organised about 1,000 tonnes of \u201cvegetable bags\u201d to be delivered to Changchun each day, he said. <\/p>\n<p>Changchun and the rest of Jilin have been battling with COVID cases increasing by thousands almost every day since mid-March. <\/p>\n<p>In what they have called a \u201clast-ditch battle\u201d against the virus, authorities have put the entire province under lockdown and conducted mass testing to isolate infections. <\/p>\n<p>Changchun itself has completed more than 10 rounds of citywide testing of its residents.  <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Ryan Woo; Editing by Kenneth Maxwell)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: A man undergoes nucleic acid testing during a citywide mass testing for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Changchun, Jilin province, China March 13, 2022. cnsphoto via REUTERS\/File Photo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"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-1406170","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\/1406170","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\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406170\/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=1406170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}