{"id":43012,"date":"2022-03-30T00:53:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T15:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/29\/hong-kong-hospitals-separate-covid-children-parents-u-turn-china"},"modified":"2022-03-30T00:53:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T15:53:38","slug":"hong-kong-hospitals-will-no-longer-separate-covid-infected-children-from-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43012","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong hospitals will no longer separate Covid-infected children from parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U-turn comes after health policy caused outrage among families and campaigners in city<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong hospital authorities have made a U-turn to allow parents of Covid-positive children to accompany them in paediatric wards, regardless of their own Covid status, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/11\/hong-kong-tackles-deadliest-covid-wave\">city\u2019s \u201cfifth wave\u201d<\/a> of the virus eases.<\/p>\n<p>Many toddlers were hospitalised during the Omicron-fuelled outbreak, which peaked this month, government data showed. But until recent days, only parents who also tested positive were allowed to remain in the same ward as their children.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/29\/hong-kong-hospitals-separate-covid-children-parents-u-turn-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U-turn comes after health policy caused outrage among families and campaigners in cityHong Kong hospital authorities have made a U-turn to allow parents of Covid-positive children to accompany them in paediatric wards, regardless of their own Covid sta&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"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-43012","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\/43012","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\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43013,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43012\/revisions\/43013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}