{"id":41653,"date":"2022-02-13T11:42:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T02:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/13\/hong-kong-fears-food-supply-disruption-as-covid-hits-drivers-in-worsening-outbreak"},"modified":"2022-02-13T11:42:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T02:42:02","slug":"hong-kong-fears-food-supply-disruption-as-covid-hits-drivers-in-worsening-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41653","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong fears food supply disruption as Covid hits drivers in worsening outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The territory imports 90% of its food and supply fears come as it battles its worst outbreak of the pandemic<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hong Kong authorities said supplies of vegetables and chilled poultry to the global financial hub may be temporarily disrupted after some mainland goods vehicle drivers preliminarily tested positive for Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong imports 90% of its food, with the mainland its most important source, especially for fresh food.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/13\/hong-kong-fears-food-supply-disruption-as-covid-hits-drivers-in-worsening-outbreak\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The territory imports 90% of its food and supply fears come as it battles its worst outbreak of the pandemicSee all our coronavirus coverageHong Kong authorities said supplies of vegetables and chilled poultry to the global financial hub may be tempora&#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":[41,50,1066,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/41653","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=41653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41654,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41653\/revisions\/41654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}