{"id":20724,"date":"2020-07-20T00:04:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T15:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/19\/global-wrap-hong-kong-critical-as-covid-cases-rise-worldwide"},"modified":"2020-07-20T00:04:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T15:04:57","slug":"global-wrap-hong-kong-critical-as-covid-cases-rise-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20724","title":{"rendered":"Global wrap: Hong Kong &#8216;critical&#8217; as Covid cases rise worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lam says situation out of control, while Melbourne makes face masks compulsory<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The coronavirus situation in Hong Kong is \u201creally critical\u201d, with a record 100 new infections recorded on Sunday, the territory\u2019s leader, Carrie Lam, said, as Melbourne became the first city in Australia to make wearing masks compulsory in response to a resurgent and aggressive outbreak there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hong Kong <\/strong>was held up months ago as a model for its success in keeping down Covid-19 cases in the crowded city-state of 7.5 million people, but its caseload \u2013 although still low by European and American standards \u2013 had grown by a third in the past fortnight to nearly 1,800. Lam has shuttered bars, gyms and nightclubs in the past week and on Sunday announced new guidelines including mandatory mask-wearing indoors.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/19\/global-wrap-hong-kong-critical-as-covid-cases-rise-worldwide\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lam says situation out of control, while Melbourne makes face masks compulsoryCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe coronavirus situation in Hong Kong is \u201creally critical\u201d, with a record 100 new infections recorded on Sunday, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1455,"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":[41,43,327,1069,1036,221,48,914,512,299,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-bangladesh","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-czech-republic","category-europe","category-hong-kong","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-science","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/20724","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\/1455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20728,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20724\/revisions\/20728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}