{"id":21029,"date":"2020-07-27T13:58:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T04:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/27\/global-report-china-reports-biggest-covid-19-surge-in-months-as-australia-sets-new-infections-record"},"modified":"2020-07-27T20:02:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T11:02:19","slug":"global-report-china-reports-biggest-covid-19-surge-in-months-as-australia-sets-new-infections-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21029","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong imposes restrictions as Covid-19 cases rise across Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dining out banned in Hong Kong; biggest daily rise in cases in China since April; first local transmission of virus in Vietnam in months<\/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>China, Australia and Hong Kong have all reported rising coronavirus figures and Vietnam has detected its first locally transmitted cases since April, as countries across Asia try to fend off an apparent second wave of infections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hong Kong<\/strong> banned dining out and capped group gatherings at two on Monday after recording more than 100 new cases for five days running. Authorities in the densely populated city have also closed pools and sports venues and made mask-wearing mandatory in public, urging people to stay home as much as possible in the middle of a sweltering summer.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/27\/global-report-china-reports-biggest-covid-19-surge-in-months-as-australia-sets-new-infections-record\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dining out banned in Hong Kong; biggest daily rise in cases in China since April; first local transmission of virus in Vietnam in monthsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina, Australia and Hong Kong have all reported rising &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":378,"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":[43,50,1069,62,88,414,1405,56,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-india","category-japan","category-melbourne","category-mexico","category-new-zealand","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21029","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\/378"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21047,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21029\/revisions\/21047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}