{"id":31692,"date":"2021-05-03T15:09:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T06:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/03\/hong-kong-plan-to-force-covid-vaccines-on-foreign-domestic-workers-sparks-alarm"},"modified":"2021-05-03T15:09:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T06:09:31","slug":"hong-kong-plan-to-force-covid-vaccines-on-foreign-domestic-workers-sparks-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31692","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong plan to force Covid vaccines on foreign domestic workers sparks alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities accused of \u2018blackmailing\u2019 workers over plan to make vaccine a condition of getting a job<\/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 government has sparked discrimination concerns over plans to force hundreds of thousands of foreign domestic workers to be vaccinated against Covid-19 or face losing their job.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have embarked on mass mandatory testing of the city\u2019s 370,000 domestic workers after a more infectious strain was detected in the community, and flagged plans for compulsory vaccinations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/03\/hong-kong-plan-to-force-covid-vaccines-on-foreign-domestic-workers-sparks-alarm\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities accused of \u2018blackmailing\u2019 workers over plan to make vaccine a condition of getting a jobCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHong Kong\u2019s government has sparked discrimination concerns over plans to force hundreds of t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,1066,48,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-hong-kong","category-philippines"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31692","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31693,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31692\/revisions\/31693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}