{"id":9593,"date":"2021-01-18T03:26:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T03:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/health-environment\/article\/3118122\/hong-kong-fourth-wave-mandatory-covid-19-testing"},"modified":"2021-01-18T03:26:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T03:26:24","slug":"hong-kong-fourth-wave-mandatory-covid-19-testing-of-workers-not-just-residents-needed-in-yau-tsim-mong-says-health-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/18\/hong-kong-fourth-wave-mandatory-covid-19-testing-of-workers-not-just-residents-needed-in-yau-tsim-mong-says-health-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong fourth wave: mandatory Covid-19 testing of workers, not just residents, needed in Yau Tsim Mong, says health expert"},"content":{"rendered":"Health experts have advised the Hong Kong government to expand mandatory Covid-19 testing to all restaurant and retail workers in Yau Tsim Mong to cut off silent transmission links in the district, home to a large outbreak in old buildings last week.The city on Monday was expecting a high caseload, after 80 preliminary-positive cases were discovered on Sunday, a day in which 55 infections were officially recorded.Authorities last week issued mandatory testing orders to residents of old\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/health-environment\/article\/3118122\/hong-kong-fourth-wave-mandatory-covid-19-testing\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health experts have advised the Hong Kong government to expand mandatory Covid-19 testing to all restaurant and retail workers in Yau Tsim Mong to cut off silent transmission links in the district, home to a large outbreak in old buildings last week.Th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":876,"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\/9593"}],"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\/876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9593"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9855,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9593\/revisions\/9855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}