{"id":42364,"date":"2022-03-11T21:58:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T12:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/11\/hong-kong-tackles-deadliest-covid-wave"},"modified":"2022-03-11T21:58:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T12:58:03","slug":"its-like-we-are-being-left-to-die-hong-kong-tackles-deadliest-covid-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42364","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s like we are being left to die\u2019: Hong Kong tackles deadliest Covid wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Dynamic zero-Covid policy\u2019 under scrutiny in region with highest death rate in developed world <\/p>\n<p>Staff meetings are often mundane affairs and rarely end in tears. But on Wednesday Ho Hiu-fai, the accident and emergency chief at Hong Kong\u2019s Queen Elizabeth hospital, <a href=\"https:\/\/hongkongfp.com\/2022\/03\/11\/over-12500-staff-at-hong-kongs-overloaded-pubic-hospitals-contracted-covid-during-5th-wave-ae-chief-in-tears\/\">broke down<\/a> in front of his team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been so hard for our colleagues to hold up this past month,\u201d he could be heard saying in a video, shortly after the hospital was converted into a Covid treatment facility and 400 non-Covid patients were transferred elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/11\/hong-kong-tackles-deadliest-covid-wave\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Dynamic zero-Covid policy\u2019 under scrutiny in region with highest death rate in developed world Staff meetings are often mundane affairs and rarely end in tears. But on Wednesday Ho Hiu-fai, the accident and emergency chief at Hong Kong\u2019s Queen Elizabe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2951,"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":[41,50,1066,346,48,79,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-hong-kong","category-society","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\/42364","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\/2951"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42365,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42364\/revisions\/42365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}