{"id":571818,"date":"2026-07-28T09:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/571818\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T09:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:11:12","slug":"covid-19-infections-surge-across-china-as-virus-reclaims-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/571818\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 Infections Surge Across China as Virus Reclaims Dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A resurgence of Covid-19 has pushed the virus back to the top of the list of circulating respiratory pathogens on the Chinese mainland, though health authorities characterize the current wave as a moderate epidemic and are urging the public not to panic.<\/p>\n<p>For the week of July 13 to 19, the Covid-19 positivity rate at sentinel hospitals across the Chinese mainland climbed to 16.3%, up 4.3 percentage points from the previous week, according to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, with the highest positivity rates being recorded among people aged 15 to 59.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/loading.gif\" alt=\"loadingImg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve accessed an article available only to subscribers<\/p>\n<p>VIEW OPTIONS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A resurgence of Covid-19 has pushed the virus back to the top of the list of circulating respiratory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60],"class_list":["post-571818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}