{"id":14286,"date":"2020-02-12T19:26:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T10:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/12\/like-a-war-fight-for-rice-toilet-roll-coronavirus-convulses-hong-kong"},"modified":"2020-02-12T19:26:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T10:26:20","slug":"its-like-a-war-the-fight-for-rice-and-toilet-roll-as-coronavirus-convulses-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14286","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s like a war&#8217;: the fight for rice and toilet roll as coronavirus convulses Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Widespread anxiety that epidemic could last many months and basic necessities will run out is gripping the city<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/12\/coronavirus-live-updates-deaths-infections-symptoms-transmission-wuhan-china-cruise-ship-quarantine-cases-latest-update-news\">Coronavirus \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is reminiscent of the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Queues form at the crack of dawn every morning in front of supermarkets across Hong Kong, with people scrambling to lay their hands on the basics: rice, toilet rolls and disinfectant.<\/p>\n<p>For the third week in a row, supermarkets shelves that usually heave with bags of rice \u2013 a staple food for Hong Kongers \u2013 are empty, and packs of noodles are running out too, although there is still plenty of meat and vegetables.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/12\/like-a-war-fight-for-rice-toilet-roll-coronavirus-convulses-hong-kong\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Widespread anxiety that epidemic could last many months and basic necessities will run out is gripping the cityCoronavirus \u2013 live updatesIt is reminiscent of the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Queues form at the crack of dawn every morning in front of supe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,48,914,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-hong-kong","category-infectious-diseases","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14287,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14286\/revisions\/14287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}