{"id":41898,"date":"2022-02-22T21:32:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T12:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/22\/hong-kong-to-test-entire-population-of-75m-for-covid-in-march"},"modified":"2022-02-23T01:35:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T16:35:38","slug":"hong-kong-to-test-entire-population-of-7-5m-for-covid-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41898","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong to test entire population of 7.5m for Covid in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie Lam announces mandatory mass testing as virus surge threatens to overwhelm healthcare system<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The entire population of nearly 7.5 million people in Hong Kong will have to undergo mandatory Covid-19 testing in March, the city\u2019s leader has announced, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/18\/no-light-at-the-end-how-hong-kongs-covid-response-went-so-wrong\">as the territory grapples with its worst outbreak<\/a>, driven by the Omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>Carrie Lam, Hong Kong\u2019s chief executive, said the population would be tested three times in March, and the territory\u2019s testing capacity would be boosted to 1 million a day or more. \u201cSince we have a population of some 7 million people, testing will take about seven days,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/22\/hong-kong-to-test-entire-population-of-75m-for-covid-in-march\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie Lam announces mandatory mass testing as virus surge threatens to overwhelm healthcare systemCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe entire population of nearly 7.5 million people in Hong Kong will have to undergo mandator&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2925,"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-41898","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\/41898","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\/2925"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41902,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41898\/revisions\/41902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}