{"id":10695,"date":"2021-01-20T06:56:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T06:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/health-environment\/article\/3118470\/hong-kong-fourth-wave-city-expects-more-70-new"},"modified":"2021-01-20T06:56:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T06:56:53","slug":"hong-kong-fourth-wave-more-than-70-new-coronavirus-cases-expected-tougher-testing-could-keep-numbers-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/20\/hong-kong-fourth-wave-more-than-70-new-coronavirus-cases-expected-tougher-testing-could-keep-numbers-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong fourth wave: more than 70 new coronavirus cases expected, tougher testing could keep numbers high"},"content":{"rendered":"Hong Kong is expecting to record more than 70 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, according to a medical source, extending an upward trend in infections likely to continue under a more stringent testing approach introduced after the outbreak in Yau Tsim Mong district.But authorities have also been pressed to further explain the rationale behind placing the neighbourhood of Sham Shui Po under similar tougher measures, with all residents of buildings with one or more cases there now subject to\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/health-environment\/article\/3118470\/hong-kong-fourth-wave-city-expects-more-70-new\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong is expecting to record more than 70 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, according to a medical source, extending an upward trend in infections likely to continue under a more stringent testing approach introduced after the outbreak in Yau Tsim M&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":920,"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\/10695"}],"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\/920"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10695"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10828,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695\/revisions\/10828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}