{"id":41524,"date":"2022-02-09T15:17:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T06:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/09\/as-hong-kong-tightens-covid-restrictions-again-residents-complain-of-being-held-hostage"},"modified":"2022-02-09T15:17:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T06:17:20","slug":"as-hong-kong-tightens-covid-restrictions-again-residents-complain-of-being-held-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41524","title":{"rendered":"As Hong Kong tightens Covid restrictions again, residents complain of being held \u2018hostage\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Large parts of the world are opening up, but Hong Kong is still pursuing \u2018dynamic zero\u2019 despite rising cases and a public running out of patience<\/p>\n<p>A viral open letter from a member of Facebook group, HK Moms, marked something of a shift in public opinion. The group is the type not usually preoccupied with the city\u2019s political upheavals, but the letter revealed a limit had been reached.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing Carrie Lam, Hong Kong\u2019s chief executive, it accused the government of holding its citizens hostage with new Covid measures \u2013 the toughest restrictions since June 2020.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/09\/as-hong-kong-tightens-covid-restrictions-again-residents-complain-of-being-held-hostage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large parts of the world are opening up, but Hong Kong is still pursuing \u2018dynamic zero\u2019 despite rising cases and a public running out of patienceA viral open letter from a member of Facebook group, HK Moms, marked something of a shift in public opinion&#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":[41,1066,48,914,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-hong-kong","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41524","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=41524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41525,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41524\/revisions\/41525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}