{"id":100610,"date":"2020-04-01T13:24:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T20:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100610"},"modified":"2020-04-01T13:24:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T20:24:50","slug":"coronavirus-china-lockdown-may-have-blocked-700000-virus-cases-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/01\/coronavirus-china-lockdown-may-have-blocked-700000-virus-cases-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: China lockdown may have blocked 700,000 virus cases &#8211; BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>BBC News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>\n\nThe virus is thought to have originated in a seafood market in Wuhan that &#8220;conducted illegal transactions of wild animals&#8221;.\n\nThe city&#8217;s 11 million residents have been shut off from the rest of the world since the middle of January, with roadblocks around the outskirts and drastic restrictions on daily life.\n\nBut roads reopened to incoming traffic late on Friday, according to Reuters news agency.\n\nAnd state media said the subway was open from Saturday and trains would be able to arrive at the city&#8217;s 17 railway stations.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Coronavirus: China lockdown may have blocked 700,000 virus cases - BBC News\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HNRA_HcSDsk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News The virus is thought to have originated in a seafood market in Wuhan that &#8220;conducted illegal transactions of wild animals&#8221;. The city&#8217;s 11 million residents have been shut off from the rest of the world since the middle of January, with roadblocks around the outskirts and drastic restrictions on daily life. But roads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}