{"id":36447,"date":"2020-04-18T03:13:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T03:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36447"},"modified":"2020-04-18T03:13:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T03:13:04","slug":"china-economy-shrinks-for-first-time-as-wuhan-covid-19-death-toll-is-increased-by-1300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36447","title":{"rendered":"China economy shrinks for first time as Wuhan Covid-19 death toll is increased by 1,300"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worst GDP fall on record comes after months of paralysis as the country went into lockdown to contain coronavirus<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus &ndash; latest updates<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>China&rsquo;s economy shrank 6.8% in the three months of 2020, the country&rsquo;s first such contraction on record and a stark sign of the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The news came as Chinese authorities revised the death toll in Wuhan, the hardest hit city and where the virus first emerged, up by 50%, to 3,869 from 2,579.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/17\/china-economy-shrinks-record-wuhan-covid-19-death-toll-rises-50-percent\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/17\/china-economy-shrinks-record-wuhan-covid-19-death-toll-rises-50-percent\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worst GDP fall on record comes after months of paralysis as the country went into lockdown to contain coronavirus Coronavirus &ndash; latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage China&rsquo;s economy shrank 6.8% in the three months of 2020, the country&rsquo;s first such contraction on record and a stark sign of the financial impact of the coronavirus &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[154,15682,758,15610],"class_list":["post-36447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-science","tag-asia-pacific","tag-china","tag-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/40001587179584.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}