{"id":41733,"date":"2022-02-15T15:39:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T06:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/15\/hong-kong-turns-public-housing-into-covid-quarantine-facilities-as-it-battles-omicron-surge"},"modified":"2022-02-15T15:39:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T06:39:06","slug":"hong-kong-turns-public-housing-into-covid-quarantine-facilities-as-it-battles-omicron-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41733","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong turns public housing into Covid quarantine facilities as it battles Omicron surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fears that city struggling with 2,000 coronavirus cases a day could see daily figures reach 30,000 <\/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 has turned newly built public housing and 10,000 hotel rooms into quarantine accommodation as authorities strive to control an Omicron outbreak that has overwhelmed the city.<\/p>\n<p>Recent days have seen record daily highs of more than 2,000 cases, but experts have warned the outbreak could reach about 30,000 a day. Already hospitals, testing facilities, and isolation centres have been swamped, with local media publishing photos of spillover tents set up in hospital carparks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/15\/hong-kong-turns-public-housing-into-covid-quarantine-facilities-as-it-battles-omicron-surge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fears that city struggling with 2,000 coronavirus cases a day could see daily figures reach 30,000 See all our coronavirus coverageHong Kong has turned newly built public housing and 10,000 hotel rooms into quarantine accommodation as authorities striv&#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":[41,50,1066,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41733","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\/41733","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=41733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41734,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41733\/revisions\/41734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}