{"id":21289,"date":"2020-08-03T08:27:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T23:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/03\/china-sends-covid-19-testing-team-to-hong-kong-prompting-surveillance-fears"},"modified":"2020-08-03T08:27:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T23:27:15","slug":"china-sends-covid-19-testing-team-to-hong-kong-prompting-surveillance-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21289","title":{"rendered":"China sends Covid-19 testing team to Hong Kong, prompting surveillance fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health officials to perform coronavirus testing, the first time a mainland team has been part of city\u2019s pandemic response<\/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>Seven Chinese health officials arrived in Hong Kong on Sunday, the first members of a 60-person team that will carry out widespread Covid-19 testing in the territory as it races to halt another wave of illness.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative marks the first time mainland health officials have assisted Hong Kong in its battle to control the epidemic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/03\/china-sends-covid-19-testing-team-to-hong-kong-prompting-surveillance-fears\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health officials to perform coronavirus testing, the first time a mainland team has been part of city\u2019s pandemic responseCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSeven Chinese health officials arrived in Hong Kong on Sunday, the firs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,555,50,1069,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-carrie-lam","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-hong-kong"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21289","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21290,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21289\/revisions\/21290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}