{"id":35498,"date":"2021-08-19T16:50:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T07:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/19\/hong-kong-reportedly-lets-nicole-kidman-skip-covid-quarantine"},"modified":"2021-08-19T16:50:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T07:50:17","slug":"hong-kong-reportedly-lets-nicole-kidman-skip-covid-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35498","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong reportedly lets Nicole Kidman skip Covid quarantine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actor said to be given exemption to film Amazon TV series, as territory braces for tougher travel rules<\/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>As Hong Kong braces for more draconian Covid-19 travel restrictions to take effect from Friday, the Australian actor Nicole Kidman received an exemption from the government to skip quarantine, media reported.<\/p>\n<p>The exemption was given to allow her to film an Amazon television series called The Expats, the news website HK01 reported, a move that contrasts sharply with the up to three weeks of mandated hotel quarantine residents must undergo after entering the Chinese-ruled territory.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/19\/hong-kong-reportedly-lets-nicole-kidman-skip-covid-quarantine\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor said to be given exemption to film Amazon TV series, as territory braces for tougher travel rulesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAs Hong Kong braces for more draconian Covid-19 travel restrictions to take effect from F&#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":[41,1066,69,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-film","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\/35498","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=35498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35499,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35498\/revisions\/35499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}