{"id":142348,"date":"2020-05-01T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/05\/01\/ms-du-door-sensors-and-me-life-with-a-beijing-covid-19-quarantine-handler\/"},"modified":"2020-05-01T02:00:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T00:00:09","slug":"ms-du-door-sensors-and-me-life-with-a-beijing-covid-19-quarantine-handler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=142348","title":{"rendered":"Ms Du, door sensors and me: life with a Beijing Covid-19 quarantine handler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s coronavirus measures are often seen as tough and effective &#8211; but how well do they really work?Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageEvery day for the last two weeks I have spoken with Ms Du, a mild-mannered, middle-aged woman who is my quarantine handler.She calls me in the morning to remind me to send her my temperature. She calls again if I forget to send the afternoon reading. She texts rose emojis, reminding me to \u201cplease cooperate\u201d with the rules. If I open my door, equipped with a sensor, to put the rubbish in the hall or pick up a delivery, she immediately calls and reminds me to let her know beforehand. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/01\/life-with-a-beijing-covid-19-quarantine-handler-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\">Ms Du, door sensors and me: life with a Beijing Covid-19 quarantine handler<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s coronavirus measures are often seen as tough and effective &#8211; but how well do they really work?Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageEvery day for the last two weeks I have spoken with Ms Du, a mild-mannered, middle-aged woman who is my quarantine handler.She calls me in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}