{"id":15453,"date":"2020-03-06T03:41:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T18:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/05\/chinese-police-place-britons-in-enforced-isolation-after-ferry-trip"},"modified":"2020-03-06T03:41:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T18:41:11","slug":"chinese-police-place-britons-in-enforced-isolation-after-ferry-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15453","title":{"rendered":"Chinese police place Britons in enforced isolation after ferry trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teacher was given 20 minutes to pack and must remain in hotel room for two weeks <\/p>\n<p>Jo Davison and her partner were relaxing in their flat in Shenzhen, China, when the phone rang. She was told by the Chinese authorities that they had been exposed to the coronavirus at close proximity and that officials were on their way. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was terrifying. Five people in hazmats turned up at our apartment, they looked like ghostbusters,\u201d she said. \u201cThey took swabs from our nose and throat and said they\u2019d return in the morning so we should start packing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/05\/chinese-police-place-britons-in-enforced-isolation-after-ferry-trip\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teacher was given 20 minutes to pack and must remain in hotel room for two weeks Jo Davison and her partner were relaxing in their flat in Shenzhen, China, when the phone rang. She was told by the Chinese authorities that they had been exposed to the c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1087,"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":[41,918,50,1069,914,512,916,299,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-biology","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-science","category-uk-news","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\/15453","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\/1087"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15454,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15453\/revisions\/15454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}