{"id":11947,"date":"2021-01-23T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/health-environment\/article\/3118916\/coronavirus-hits-and-misses-roller-coaster-year"},"modified":"2021-01-23T00:00:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T00:00:24","slug":"coronavirus-hits-and-misses-in-roller-coaster-year-for-hong-kong-horror-cruise-rules-fatigue-and-a-call-the-health-minister-will-never-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/23\/coronavirus-hits-and-misses-in-roller-coaster-year-for-hong-kong-horror-cruise-rules-fatigue-and-a-call-the-health-minister-will-never-forget\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus hits and misses in roller-coaster year for Hong Kong: horror cruise, rules fatigue and a call the health minister will never forget"},"content":{"rendered":"Hong Kong officially launched its battle with the coronavirus a year ago as the first case, imported from epicentre Wuhan, was confirmed. One year on, the city is still mired in its war against Covid-19, recording nearly 10,000 infections and more than 160 deaths. In the first of a two-part series, the Post reviews how Hong Kong faced a roller-coaster ride of unprecedented challenges amid the pandemic.On the last day of 2019, health minister Sophia Chan Siu-chee received an ominous call from\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/health-environment\/article\/3118916\/coronavirus-hits-and-misses-roller-coaster-year\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong officially launched its battle with the coronavirus a year ago as the first case, imported from epicentre Wuhan, was confirmed. One year on, the city is still mired in its war against Covid-19, recording nearly 10,000 infections and more than&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1166,"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\/11947"}],"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\/1166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11948,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11947\/revisions\/11948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}