{"id":11446,"date":"2021-01-22T02:01:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T02:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/health-environment\/article\/3118756\/coronavirus-hong-kong-place-tens-thousands"},"modified":"2021-01-22T02:01:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T02:01:51","slug":"coronavirus-hong-kong-to-place-tens-of-thousands-in-lockdown-in-bid-to-contain-outbreak-residents-must-show-negative-test-to-exit-certain-neighbourhoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/22\/coronavirus-hong-kong-to-place-tens-of-thousands-in-lockdown-in-bid-to-contain-outbreak-residents-must-show-negative-test-to-exit-certain-neighbourhoods\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Hong Kong to place tens of thousands in lockdown in bid to contain outbreak; residents must show negative test to exit certain neighbourhoods"},"content":{"rendered":"Hong Kong will for the first time lock down tens of thousands of city residents in a bid to contain a worsening outbreak in coronavirus-hit Jordan and Sham Shui Po, neighbourhoods filled with ageing, subdivided flats.The lockdown, the most drastic measure yet during the year-long pandemic, is expected to begin this weekend in the two designated mandatory testing areas within Yau Tsim Mong and Sham Shui Po districts. Only residents who showed negative Covid-19 test results would be allowed 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\/3118756\/coronavirus-hong-kong-place-tens-thousands\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong will for the first time lock down tens of thousands of city residents in a bid to contain a worsening outbreak in coronavirus-hit Jordan and Sham Shui Po, neighbourhoods filled with ageing, subdivided flats.The lockdown, the most drastic meas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1131,"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\/11446"}],"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\/1131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11446"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11787,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11446\/revisions\/11787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}