{"id":40737,"date":"2022-03-29T01:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T01:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=40737"},"modified":"2022-03-29T01:00:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T01:00:22","slug":"omicron-shanghai-lockdown-needed-to-stop-serious-community-spread-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=40737","title":{"rendered":"Omicron: Shanghai lockdown needed to stop \u2018serious\u2019 community spread, experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese financial hub Shanghai started a two-stage Covid-19 lockdown and mass testing on Monday, moving away from a strategy of targeted controls.Virus experts say the lockdown \u2013 the city\u2019s biggest \u2013 is necessary to stop an outbreak of the highly transmissible Omicron variant from worsening.Shanghai reported 3,500 new locally transmitted cases on Monday, most of them with mild or no symptoms. More than 10,000 infections have been found through mass testing in the past week \u2013 over 9,900 of them\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3172188\/omicron-shanghai-lockdown-needed-stop-serious-community-spread?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese financial hub Shanghai started a two-stage Covid-19 lockdown and mass testing on Monday, moving away from a strategy of targeted controls.Virus experts say&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":40738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40737"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}