{"id":2149,"date":"2023-01-10T16:55:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T22:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2026-01-23T09:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:29:13","slug":"chinas-covid-19-infections-hit-peak-in-populous-regions-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/01\/10\/chinas-covid-19-infections-hit-peak-in-populous-regions-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Covid-19 Infections Hit Peak in Populous Regions, Officials Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/chinas-covid-19-infections-hit-peak-in-populous-regions-officials-say-11673271254\">WSJ<\/a>) (Video at the link )Some of China\u2019s most populous provinces have passed the peak in the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/chinas-opaque-decision-making-confounds-business-governments-11673269970?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"current wave of Covid-19 infections, opens in a new window\">current wave of Covid-19 infections<\/a>&nbsp;sweeping across the country, officials said Monday.&nbsp;In central China\u2019s Henan province, 89% of the 100 million residents had already been infected by&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/china-developed-mrna-covid-vaccine-starts-test-production-11673001366?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"the Omicron variants, opens in a new window\">the Omicron variants<\/a>&nbsp;by Friday, said Kan Quancheng, director of the provincial health commission. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Chinas_Covid-19_Infections_Hit_Peak_in_Populous_Regions_Officials_Say_-_WSJ.pdf\">Link to full text pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(WSJ) (Video at the link )Some of China\u2019s most populous provinces have passed the peak in the&nbsp;current wave of Covid-19 infections&nbsp;sweeping across the country, officials said Monday.&nbsp;In central China\u2019s Henan province, 89% of the 100 million residents had already been infected by&nbsp;the Omicron variants&nbsp;by Friday, said Kan Quancheng, director of the provincial health commission. Link [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11307,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions\/11307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}