{"id":41516,"date":"2022-02-09T19:42:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T10:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/feb\/09\/covid-live-news-hong-kong-set-for-record-daily-cases-help-for-poor-nations-failing-says-who"},"modified":"2022-02-10T09:28:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T00:28:09","slug":"covid-live-hong-kong-daily-cases-nearly-double-in-new-wave-poland-could-lift-restrictions-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41516","title":{"rendered":"Covid news: Sweden scraps almost all restrictions and testing despite pleas from scientists; Spain\u2019s King Felipe tests positive \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This blog is now closed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/feb\/09\/covid-live-news-hong-kong-set-for-record-daily-cases-help-for-poor-nations-failing-says-who?filterKeyEvents=false&amp;page=with:block-6203f1458f08cb1176ac78fa#block-6203f1458f08cb1176ac78fa\">Sweden scraps almost all of its few restrictions and stops most testing<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/feb\/09\/covid-live-news-hong-kong-set-for-record-daily-cases-help-for-poor-nations-failing-says-who?page=with:block-6203b5fe8f08d83117825607#block-6203b5fe8f08d83117825607\">Spain\u2019s King Felipe tests positive after displaying mild symptoms<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/feb\/09\/uk-health-minister-gillian-keegan-apologises-continuing-meeting-positive-covid-test\">UK health minister sorry for continuing meeting after positive test<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/09\/lets-remember-why-we-are-here-new-zealand-anti-vax-protest-splinters-into-jibes-and-jabs\">\u2018We stand with Ottawa\u2019: muddled messages at New Zealand protest<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/09\/as-hong-kong-tightens-covid-restrictions-again-residents-complain-of-being-held-hostage\">As Hong Kong tightens curbs, residents complain of being held \u2018hostage\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/08\/canadian-truckers-block-bridge-to-us-trudeau\">Arrests in Ottawa as Canadian truckers block main bridge to US<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sajid Javid, the <strong>UK <\/strong>health secretary, has pledged to recruit 15,000 new health workers by the end of March to tackle the pandemic treatment backlog. <\/p>\n<p>Writing in the Daily Telegraph, he said the NHS planned \u201cto recruit 10,000 more nurses from overseas and 5,000 more healthcare support workers by the end of March\u201d to improve capacity. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cRemove your mask,\u201d a man demands, as I walk through the crowd. When I say I would like to keep it on, he immediately asks if I\u2019m from mainstream media. I reply that I am and he says \u201cdon\u2019t twist the truth just because you\u2019re on the government dollars\u201d. He is not the only one demanding I remove the mask.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/feb\/09\/covid-live-news-hong-kong-set-for-record-daily-cases-help-for-poor-nations-failing-says-who\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is now closedSweden scraps almost all of its few restrictions and stops most testing; Spain\u2019s King Felipe tests positive after displaying mild symptomsUK health minister sorry for continuing meeting after positive test\u2018We stand with Ottawa\u2019: &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2891,"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":[41,50,1066,221,48,914,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-europe","category-hong-kong","category-infectious-diseases","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41516","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\/2891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41516"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41553,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41516\/revisions\/41553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}