{"id":26776,"date":"2021-01-27T11:14:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T11:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=26776"},"modified":"2021-01-27T11:14:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T11:14:02","slug":"and-you-thought-nose-swabs-were-bad-china-begins-using-anal-swabs-to-test-for-covid-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/01\/27\/and-you-thought-nose-swabs-were-bad-china-begins-using-anal-swabs-to-test-for-covid-in-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"And you thought nose swabs were bad! China begins using anal swabs to test for Covid in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25493\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/swab-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/swab-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/swab-500x334.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/swab-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/swab.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beijing is using anal swabs to test its residents for\u00a0<a id=\"mol-161cbf10-608d-11eb-96c6-cb0664efce92\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/coronavirus\/index.html\">coronavirus<\/a>, a method that expert says is more accurate and raise the chances of detecting the virus.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9192251\/And-thought-nose-swabs-bad-China-begins-using-anal-swabs-test-Covid-Beijing.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Beijing is using anal swabs to test its residents for\u00a0coronavirus, a method that expert says is more accurate and raise the chances&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-covid-19"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/swab.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26777,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26776\/revisions\/26777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}