{"id":29811,"date":"2021-03-16T15:45:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T06:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/16\/hong-kong-leader-seeks-to-allay-concerns-about-child-separations-in-covid-quarantine"},"modified":"2021-03-16T15:45:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T06:45:33","slug":"hong-kong-leader-seeks-to-allay-concerns-about-child-separations-in-covid-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29811","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong leader seeks to allay concerns about child separations in Covid quarantine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie Lam denies there is deliberate policy to separate children from parents as US consulate says it will raise issue \u2018at highest level\u2019<\/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>Hong Kong\u2019s leader, Carrie Lam, has responded to concerns that young children are being separated from their parents in quarantine centres as the city seeks to control its latest Covid-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>More than 120 cases have been recorded so far in a cluster linked to a high-end Hong Kong gym popular with the expat and finance community. It has prompted the temporary closure of the US consulate, sudden lockdowns of residential buildings for mass testing, and hundreds have been quarantined, giving rise to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-hongkong-families-idUSKBN2B711T\">allegations<\/a> of alarming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.am730.com.hk\/news\/%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E\/%E7%B6%B2%E4%B8%8A%E7%86%B1%E8%A9%B1%EF%BD%9C%E5%85%A9%E7%A2%BA%E8%A8%BA%E5%B9%BC%E7%AB%A5%E9%80%81%E9%99%A2%E9%9A%94%E9%9B%A2%E3%80%80%E6%AF%8D%E8%A6%AA%E5%88%86%E4%BA%AB%E5%BF%83%E7%A2%8E%E7%B6%93%E6%AD%B7-259866\">family separations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/16\/hong-kong-leader-seeks-to-allay-concerns-about-child-separations-in-covid-quarantine\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie Lam denies there is deliberate policy to separate children from parents as US consulate says it will raise issue \u2018at highest level\u2019Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHong Kong\u2019s leader, Carrie Lam, has responded to conce&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1803,"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":[41,555,1066,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-carrie-lam","category-coronavirus","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\/29811","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\/1803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29812,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29811\/revisions\/29812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}