{"id":10307,"date":"2021-01-19T13:12:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T13:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3118380\/hong-kong-fourth-wave-south-asian-residents-concern-groups"},"modified":"2021-01-19T13:12:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T13:12:18","slug":"hong-kong-fourth-wave-south-asian-residents-concern-groups-outraged-over-officials-coronavirus-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/19\/hong-kong-fourth-wave-south-asian-residents-concern-groups-outraged-over-officials-coronavirus-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong fourth wave: South Asian residents, concern groups outraged over official\u2019s coronavirus remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has sought to reassure members of ethnic minority groups caught up in an escalating Covid-19 outbreak in Hong Kong\u2019s Yau Tsim Mong district that they have not been targeted based on race or ethnicity, after an outcry sparked by a health official\u2019s suggestion that their \u201cbehaviour put them at risk\u201d.\u201cThere is absolutely no suggestion of the spread of disease relating to race or ethnicity,\u201d Lam said on Tuesday. \u201cIf there is any misunderstanding arising\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3118380\/hong-kong-fourth-wave-south-asian-residents-concern-groups\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has sought to reassure members of ethnic minority groups caught up in an escalating Covid-19 outbreak in Hong Kong\u2019s Yau Tsim Mong district that they have not been targeted based on race or ethnicity, after an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1043,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1043"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10308,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307\/revisions\/10308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}