{"id":41551,"date":"2022-02-10T10:35:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T01:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/10\/hong-kong-leader-carrie-lam-apologises-for-long-covid-testing-queues-as-new-restrictions-bite"},"modified":"2022-02-10T10:35:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T01:35:58","slug":"hong-kong-leader-carrie-lam-apologises-for-long-covid-testing-queues-as-new-restrictions-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41551","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam apologises for long Covid testing queues as new restrictions bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apology comes as city enforces new measures including closure of hairdressers and addition of malls to vaccine pass system<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s leader, Carrie Lam, has said she is \u201cdeeply sorry and anxious\u201d about the lengthy wait for residents to get tested or enter isolation facilities after a record number of new coronavirus cases left authorities scrambling.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s daily Covid-19 infections nearly doubled to a record 1,161 cases on Wednesday as the global financial hub battles a rapid surge that could pose the biggest test yet of its \u201cdynamic zero\u201d policy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/10\/hong-kong-leader-carrie-lam-apologises-for-long-covid-testing-queues-as-new-restrictions-bite\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apology comes as city enforces new measures including closure of hairdressers and addition of malls to vaccine pass systemHong Kong\u2019s leader, Carrie Lam, has said she is \u201cdeeply sorry and anxious\u201d about the lengthy wait for residents to get tested or e&#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":[41,1066,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/41551","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=41551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41552,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41551\/revisions\/41552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}