{"id":1304823,"date":"2022-02-16T23:37:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T04:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1304823"},"modified":"2022-02-16T23:38:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T04:38:07","slug":"hong-kong-coronavirus-situation-out-of-control-under-chinese-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hong-kong-coronavirus-situation-out-of-control-under-chinese-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Coronavirus Situation Out of Control Under Chinese Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhong-kong-coronavirus-situation-out-of-control-under-chinese-rule%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1304823&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238519467-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Hong Kong is currently facing its \u201cworst coronavirus outbreak\u201d while under increasing rule by pro-Chinese Communist Party forces in the city\u2019s government, the local news outlet Coconuts Hong Kong <a href=\"https:\/\/coconuts.co\/hongkong\/news\/hong-kong-to-convert-new-public-housing-flats-and-hotels-into-covid-19-isolation-facilities\/\">reported<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe city [of Hong Kong] faces its worst coronavirus outbreak with more than 2,000 cases reported a day before,\u201d the news site observed on February 15.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThousands of infected people are also waiting at their homes to be admitted to hospitals or other isolation facilities,\u201d according to the media outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong health officials on February 14 <a href=\"https:\/\/hongkongfp.com\/2022\/02\/14\/its-a-mess-covid-19-cases-at-at-dozens-of-hong-kong-care-homes-as-elderly-quarantine-facilities-overwhelmed\/\">detected<\/a> a record-high number of new Chinese coronavirus cases, \u201cwith 2,071 new infections confirmed, marking the fourth straight day of four-digit cases,\u201d the Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s government said Tuesday it plans to accommodate the city\u2019s surging number of new coronavirus patients by converting \u201cseveral\u201d new public rental housing blocks into quarantine facilities.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam told reporters on February 15 her administration would \u201ctemporarily convert blocks 1 and 7 of Queen\u2019s Hill Estate in Fanling, and Lai King Estate\u2019s Heng King House in Kwai Chung into isolation facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lam predicted the converted apartments would admit up to 3,000 Chinese coronavirus patients. She said the city was set to lease the newly built public housing units to renters, but the Hong Kong government will now make \u201can appropriate arrangement\u201d with people due to move into the buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong is a former British colony that returned to Chinese rule in 1997. The city enjoyed limited freedoms in the wake of the power transfer, as it was negotiated to allow Hong Kong to operate according to a \u201cOne Country, Two Systems\u201d policy. The Chinese Communist Party has increasingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/5d3d7d2e-bba8-11ea-a05d-efc604854c3f\">defied<\/a> the terms of this agreement since 2019 when it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/31\/2021-the-year-democracy-died-in-hong-kong\/\">launched<\/a> a political crackdown on Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>The action prompted a backlash among pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong, who sparked a protest movement that gained momentum in the summer of 2019. In response, the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s rubber-stamp legislature <a href=\"https:\/\/hongkongfp.com\/hong-kong-national-security-law\/\">passed<\/a> a \u201cNational Security Law\u201d on June 30, 2020, and enforced it in Hong Kong that same day. The legislation created four new crimes \u2014 subversion, secession, terrorism, and collusion with foreign forces \u2014 which were \u201cbroadly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2020\/07\/hong-kong-national-security-law-10-things-you-need-to-know\/\">defined<\/a>.\u201d Soon, the Hong Kong Police Force began arresting pro-democracy protesters and charging them with these new National Security crimes, effectively shutting down the once-powerful movement.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s government has continued to shift toward a largely pro-Chinese Communist Party stance since the National Security Law\u2019s passing in the summer of 2020, with the city\u2019s public health policies reflecting this change. Hong Kong is currently pushing for a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-00191-7\">zero-COVID<\/a>\u201d policy, as is already observed in China, that aims not to live with the Chinese coronavirus, but to stamp out every single new case of the disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong is currently facing its \u201cworst coronavirus outbreak\u201d while under increasing rule by pro-Chinese Communist Party forces in the city\u2019s government, the local news outlet Coconuts Hong Kong reported &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1304823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}