{"id":487487,"date":"2022-04-28T11:32:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T06:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=487487"},"modified":"2022-04-28T11:32:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T06:02:28","slug":"oil-edges-lower-as-mass-covid-testing-begins-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-edges-lower-as-mass-covid-testing-begins-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil edges lower as mass COVID testing begins in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices edged lower in early Asian trade on Thursday as concerns about rising coronavirus cases in China, the world&#8217;s biggest oil importer, weighed on futures markets.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s capital Beijing reported 48 new symptomatic and 2 new asymptomatic COVID-19 cases for April 27, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The city recorded 31 symptomatic cases a day earlier and three asymptomatic ones, as it began a mass testing program aimed at containing a new outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices edged lower in early Asian trade on Thursday as concerns about rising coronavirus cases in China, the world&#8217;s biggest oil importer, weighed on futures markets. China&#8217;s capital Beijing reported 48 new symptomatic and 2 new asymptomatic COVID-19 cases for April 27, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Thursday. The city recorded 31 symptomatic cases a day earlier and three asymptomatic ones, as it began a mass testing program aimed at containing a new outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}