{"id":136339,"date":"2022-02-08T20:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chinapulse.com\/?p=421804"},"modified":"2022-02-08T20:00:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T12:00:57","slug":"coronavirus-hong-kong-imposes-toughest-social-distancing-rules-yet-with-more-temporary-closures-ban-on-gatherings-of-more-than-2-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2022\/02\/08\/coronavirus-hong-kong-imposes-toughest-social-distancing-rules-yet-with-more-temporary-closures-ban-on-gatherings-of-more-than-2-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Hong Kong imposes toughest social-distancing rules yet, with more temporary closures, ban on gatherings of more than 2 families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP\u2019s journalism by subscribing . Key points: \u2013 Cap on public gatherings tightened to two people but families with more than two members exempted, cross-family gatherings of more than two families banned \u2013 Vaccine pass extended to shopping centres, department stores, supermarkets, wet markets, religious places and salons, the latter two to be closed until February 24 \u2013 Dining at \u2018Type D\u2019 restaurants cut to four people per table, types B and C limited to two per table \u2013 Fine for ignoring mandatory testing doubled to HK$10,000 \u2013 Anti-epidemic fund to get another HK$26 billion, with Legco approval as early as next Tuesday, those temporarily unemployed will be covered Hong Kong has imposed its toughest social-distancing rules yet, announcing an unprecedented ban on private gatherings of more than two families, as well as the closure of more public venues, including houses of worship, from Thursday.&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This data comes from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinapulse.com\/\" title=\"ChinaPulse.com provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in China\" >ChinaPulse.com media intelligence and smart news insights monitoring platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP\u2019s journalism by subscribing . Key points: \u2013 Cap on public gatherings tightened to two people but families with more than two members exempted,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,144,213,671,339,176,288,194,494],"tags":[3686,10429,10321,10323,10324,10337,5256,8864,10328,10345,10659,2107,7035],"class_list":["post-136339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beijing","category-china","category-china-news","category-finance","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights","category-medicine","category-news-chinese-law","category-pharmaceutical","tag-boycott","tag-carrie-lam","tag-communist","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-face-mask","tag-healthcare","tag-news-media","tag-pandemic","tag-propaganda","tag-quarantine","tag-religion","tag-vaccine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136340,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136339\/revisions\/136340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}