{"id":41943,"date":"2022-02-24T12:08:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T03:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/24\/hong-kong-to-allow-in-doctors-from-mainland-china-as-covid-cases-overwhelm-hospitals"},"modified":"2022-02-24T12:08:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T03:08:38","slug":"hong-kong-to-allow-in-doctors-from-mainland-china-as-covid-cases-overwhelm-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41943","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong to allow in doctors from mainland China as Covid cases overwhelm hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City, which is pursuing a zero-Covid strategy, is registering thousands of cases a day in its worst-ever wave of the virus<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s government has invoked emergency powers to allow doctors and nurses from the Chinese mainland to practise in the financial hub as it struggles to tackle a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/18\/no-light-at-the-end-how-hong-kongs-covid-response-went-so-wrong\">spiralling coronavirus outbreak<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe regulation will provide a legal framework for the CPG (central people\u2019s government) to render the necessary emergent support to Hong Kong in a more effective and expeditious manner,\u201d the government said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/24\/hong-kong-to-allow-in-doctors-from-mainland-china-as-covid-cases-overwhelm-hospitals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City, which is pursuing a zero-Covid strategy, is registering thousands of cases a day in its worst-ever wave of the virusHong Kong\u2019s government has invoked emergency powers to allow doctors and nurses from the Chinese mainland to practise in the finan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-41943","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\/41943","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41944,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41943\/revisions\/41944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}