{"id":8745,"date":"2021-01-15T03:39:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T03:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/health-environment\/article\/3117841\/hong-kong-fourth-wave-mandatory-covid-19-testing"},"modified":"2021-01-15T03:39:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T03:39:13","slug":"hong-kong-fourth-wave-mandatory-covid-19-testing-for-thousands-as-city-puts-entire-district-under-microscope-following-recent-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/15\/hong-kong-fourth-wave-mandatory-covid-19-testing-for-thousands-as-city-puts-entire-district-under-microscope-following-recent-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong fourth wave: mandatory Covid-19 testing for thousands as city puts entire district under microscope following recent outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"Compulsory testing involving thousands of residents will be carried out in Hong Kong\u2019s Yau Tsim Mong district starting from today, a response to the major Covid-19 outbreak uncovered earlier this week in four tenement buildings in Jordan, according to a government source.The district-based approach will cover the area bordered by Nathan Road, Jordan Road, Canton Road and Kansu Street. Residents of more than 20 buildings already known to have at least one case would undergo mandatory screenings,\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/health-environment\/article\/3117841\/hong-kong-fourth-wave-mandatory-covid-19-testing\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compulsory testing involving thousands of residents will be carried out in Hong Kong\u2019s Yau Tsim Mong district starting from today, a response to the major Covid-19 outbreak uncovered earlier this week in four tenement buildings in Jordan, according to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":875,"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\/8745"}],"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\/875"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8745"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8928,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745\/revisions\/8928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}