{"id":27231,"date":"2021-01-23T15:33:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T06:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/23\/hong-kong-orders-thousands-to-stay-home-in-citys-first-covid-lockdown"},"modified":"2021-01-23T15:33:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T06:33:57","slug":"hong-kong-orders-thousands-to-stay-home-in-citys-first-covid-lockdown-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27231","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong orders thousands to stay home in city&#8217;s first Covid lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials plan to test everyone inside a designated zone of Kowloon Peninsula\u2019s Jordan neighbourhood during two-day lockdown<\/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>Thousands of people in Hong Kong have been ordered to stay in their homes in the city\u2019s first coronavirus lockdown, as authorities battle an outbreak in one of its poorest and most densely packed districts.<\/p>\n<p>The order bans about 10,000 people living inside multiple housing blocks within the neighbourhood of Jordan, on the Kowloon Peninsula, from leaving their apartments unless they can show a negative test.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/23\/hong-kong-orders-thousands-to-stay-home-in-citys-first-covid-lockdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials plan to test everyone inside a designated zone of Kowloon Peninsula\u2019s Jordan neighbourhood during two-day lockdownCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThousands of people in Hong Kong have been ordered to stay in their &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,50,1066,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-hong-kong","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\/27231","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27233,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27231\/revisions\/27233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}