{"id":609746,"date":"2021-08-03T14:06:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T18:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=609746"},"modified":"2021-08-03T14:06:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T18:06:04","slug":"china-wracked-by-surge-in-coronavirus-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-wracked-by-surge-in-coronavirus-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"China Wracked by Surge in Coronavirus Cases"},"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\">14<\/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-wracked-by-surge-in-coronavirus-cases%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=609746&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 readability=\"29.44\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/\">Coronavirus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Chinese media: Outbreak is &#8216;most serious since Wuhan&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1332159698_736x514-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1332159698_736x514.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1332159698_736x514-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1332159698_736x514-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tResidents line up for nucleic acid testing of COVID-19 on August 3, 2021 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 August 3, 2021 2:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"52.064782908339\">\n<p><span>China is suffering a devastating second wave of coronavirus cases as millions of citizens and major cities go into lockdown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Coronavirus cases have reappeared in 35 cities and in 17 of China&#8217;s 33 provinces, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/health-china-coronavirus-pandemic-wuhan-8fa8edb073629c692ac51772e5e9d775\">according<\/a> to the Associated Press. Chinese propaganda outlet <i>Global Times <\/i>has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202108\/1230248.shtml\">called<\/a> the spike in cases the &#8220;most serious since Wuhan.&#8221; In response to the outbreak, Chinese officials have <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/changing-america\/well-being\/565974-more-than-a-million-people-under-new-lockdown-in-china-amid\">reinstated<\/a> mandatory testing in several cities and forced millions of people back into lockdowns. The cities of Nanjing and Yangzhou have also <\/span><span>canceled<\/span><span> flights, and 23 train stations across the country have halted all long-distance trips.<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Beijing is battling its latest outbreak of the coronavirus as the highly contagious Delta variant forces new lockdowns and restrictions worldwide. <\/span><span>China&#8217;s response to the spike in cases could be complicated by the communist country&#8217;s vaccine development. The Beijing-created Sinovac vaccine\u2014which the vast majority of vaccinated Chinese have taken\u2014has an efficacy rate of 50 percent, compared with vaccine effectiveness rates of more than 90 percent for U.S.-produced vaccines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Revelations about China&#8217;s latest COVID struggles also come as a new House Foreign Affairs Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/wuhan-scientists-genetically-manipulated-coronavirus-congressional-report-says\/\">report<\/a> sheds more light on Beijing&#8217;s efforts to conceal information about the outbreak during the earliest stages of the pandemic,<\/span><span> which may have started in Wuhan as early as September 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coronavirus Chinese media: Outbreak is &#8216;most serious since Wuhan&#8217;  Residents line up for nucleic acid testing of COVID-19 on August 3, 2021 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609746","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\/609746","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609746\/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=609746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}