{"id":37536,"date":"2022-02-28T23:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T23:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=37536"},"modified":"2022-02-28T23:00:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T23:00:13","slug":"hong-kongs-omicron-wave-may-disrupt-chinas-border-reopening-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=37536","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s Omicron wave may disrupt China\u2019s border reopening plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe worsening fifth wave of Covid-19 infections in Hong Kong has dashed hopes that the city\u2019s border with the mainland would reopen any time soon. The outbreak is also likely to prevent China from easing its border restrictions for foreign visitors in the near future.Omicron \u2013 which is more contagious than previous coronavirus variants, although it appears to cause less severe disease \u2013 presents a big risk for mainland China, which is not prepared to handle a surge in Covid-19 cases, especially\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/coronavirus\/analysis-opinion\/article\/3168649\/hong-kongs-omicron-wave-may-disrupt-chinas-border?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe worsening fifth wave of Covid-19 infections in Hong Kong has dashed hopes that the city\u2019s border with the mainland would reopen any time&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":37537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37536"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}