{"id":41827,"date":"2022-02-19T23:59:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T14:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/19\/hong-kong-covid-surge-is-overwhelming-hospitals-says-leader"},"modified":"2022-02-19T23:59:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T14:59:05","slug":"hong-kong-covid-surge-is-overwhelming-hospitals-says-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41827","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Covid surge is overwhelming hospitals, says leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Construction crews from mainland China will help build isolation units, Carrie Lam said <\/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 reported 15 coronavirus deaths and more than 6,000 confirmed cases for a second day in a surge the Chinese territory\u2019s leader says its overwhelming hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>The government announced plans to have construction crews from mainland China build isolation units with 10,000 beds after crowding at hospitals forced patients to wait outdoors in winter cold.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/19\/hong-kong-covid-surge-is-overwhelming-hospitals-says-leader\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction crews from mainland China will help build isolation units, Carrie Lam said See all our coronavirus coverageHong Kong reported 15 coronavirus deaths and more than 6,000 confirmed cases for a second day in a surge the Chinese territory\u2019s lea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":355,"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":[41,555,50,1066,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-carrie-lam","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\/41827","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\/355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41831,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41827\/revisions\/41831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}