{"id":9063,"date":"2021-01-16T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/health-environment\/article\/3117974\/hong-kong-fourth-wave-coronavirus-infections-old"},"modified":"2021-01-16T00:00:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T00:00:12","slug":"hong-kong-fourth-wave-coronavirus-infections-in-old-buildings-subdivided-flats-is-a-new-approach-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/16\/hong-kong-fourth-wave-coronavirus-infections-in-old-buildings-subdivided-flats-is-a-new-approach-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong fourth wave: coronavirus infections in old buildings, subdivided flats \u2013 is a new approach needed?"},"content":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s subdivided flats and improper sewage structures crammed into old buildings have exposed flaws in the city\u2019s strategy against Covid-19, health experts have warned, calling for a more proactive and timely approach.The concern centred on fears over what was perceived by critics as a delayed response in tackling growing clusters in aged tenement blocks in Yau Tsim Mong district in the past week. This was despite government efforts to ramp up mandatory testing to cover bigger swathes of\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/health-environment\/article\/3117974\/hong-kong-fourth-wave-coronavirus-infections-old\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong\u2019s subdivided flats and improper sewage structures crammed into old buildings have exposed flaws in the city\u2019s strategy against Covid-19, health experts have warned, calling for a more proactive and timely approach.The concern centred on fears&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":911,"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\/9063"}],"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\/911"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9064,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9063\/revisions\/9064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}