{"id":40773,"date":"2022-01-18T11:39:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T02:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/18\/hong-kong-police-arrest-two-cathay-flight-attendants-accused-of-covid-rule-breach"},"modified":"2022-01-18T11:39:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T02:39:18","slug":"hong-kong-police-arrest-two-cathay-flight-attendants-accused-of-covid-rule-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40773","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong police arrest two Cathay flight attendants accused of Covid rule breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police allege staff at the beleaguered airline \u2018conducted unnecessary activities\u2019 during home isolation as China presses on with zero-Covid strategy<\/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 police have arrested and charged two former Cathay Pacific flight attendants over allegations they broke the city\u2019s coronavirus rules.<\/p>\n<p>The statement did not name the airline but the two \u2013 reportedly men aged 44 and 45 \u2013 were later confirmed by leader Carrie Lam as being former staff of the airline. Lam alleged on Tuesday \u201cthere is evidence showing they have violated [epidemic regulations]\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/18\/hong-kong-police-arrest-two-cathay-flight-attendants-accused-of-covid-rule-breach\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police allege staff at the beleaguered airline \u2018conducted unnecessary activities\u2019 during home isolation as China presses on with zero-Covid strategyCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHong Kong police have arrested and charged t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/40773","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40774,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40773\/revisions\/40774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}