{"id":41701,"date":"2022-02-14T11:27:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T02:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/14\/covid-onslaught-has-overwhelmed-hong-kongs-capacity-as-cases-surge-leader-says"},"modified":"2022-02-14T19:24:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T10:24:05","slug":"covid-onslaught-has-overwhelmed-hong-kongs-capacity-as-cases-surge-leader-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41701","title":{"rendered":"Covid \u2018onslaught\u2019 has overwhelmed Hong Kong\u2019s capacity, leader says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie Lam says her government will work with Chinese officials to combat \u2018worrying\u2019 situation as cases soar<\/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\u2019s leader, Carrie Lam, has said an \u201conslaught\u201d of Covid-19 infections has dealt a heavy blow and overwhelmed capacity to deal with the virus as daily cases surge to record highs.<\/p>\n<p>Daily infections have multiplied by a factor of 13 over the past two weeks, from about 100 cases at the start of February to a record 2,071 on 14 February, with authorities scrambling to control the deepening outbreak. The figure is expected to more than double on Tuesday, with another 4,730 preliminary positive cases also announced.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/14\/covid-onslaught-has-overwhelmed-hong-kongs-capacity-as-cases-surge-leader-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie Lam says her government will work with Chinese officials to combat \u2018worrying\u2019 situation as cases soarCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHong Kong\u2019s leader, Carrie Lam, has said an \u201conslaught\u201d of Covid-19 infections has d&#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":[41,50,1066,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41701","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\/41701","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=41701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41705,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41701\/revisions\/41705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}