{"id":41459,"date":"2022-02-07T22:03:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T13:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/07\/hong-kong-reports-highest-number-of-covid-cases-since-pandemic-began"},"modified":"2022-02-07T22:03:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T13:03:20","slug":"hong-kong-reports-highest-number-of-covid-cases-since-pandemic-began","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41459","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong reports highest number of Covid cases since pandemic began"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials confirm 614 new cases but insist outbreak can be controlled if people stay at home<\/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 has reported a record 614 new cases of Covid-19, the vast majority of them the highly transmissible Omicron variant, but authorities are sticking to their guns on the territory getting back down to zero.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the authorities reported the city\u2019s highest daily number of cases since the pandemic began, a doubling of the previous day\u2019s total, with more than a third untraceable. Another 600 cases were recorded as preliminarily positive. The sharp rise was attributed to last week\u2019s lunar new year festivities, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/17\/deep-trouble-cathay-pacific-descends-further-as-punitive-pandemic-worsens\">although the overall outbreak began late last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/07\/hong-kong-reports-highest-number-of-covid-cases-since-pandemic-began\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials confirm 614 new cases but insist outbreak can be controlled if people stay at homeCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHong Kong has reported a record 614 new cases of Covid-19, the vast majority of them the highly tran&#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":[41,50,1066,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41459","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\/41459","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=41459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41460,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41459\/revisions\/41460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}