{"id":15622,"date":"2020-03-10T11:13:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T02:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/10\/covid-19-new-zealand-government-accused-of-flat-footed-response"},"modified":"2020-03-10T11:13:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T02:13:57","slug":"covid-19-new-zealand-government-accused-of-flat-footed-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15622","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: New Zealand government accused of &#8216;flat-footed&#8217; response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition claims not enough is being done to stimulate economy, despite Jacinda Ardern saying nation is in robust position to fight coronavirus<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand government\u2019s economic response to coronavirus has been criticised as \u201cstartlingly flat-footed\u201d and a symptom of \u201ccomplacency\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the New Zealand stock market dropped 4.85% in the first half hour of trading, prompting opposition leader Simon Bridges to claim the Labour government wasn\u2019t doing enough to stimulate the economy and look after the tourism, education and export industries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/10\/covid-19-new-zealand-government-accused-of-flat-footed-response\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition claims not enough is being done to stimulate economy, despite Jacinda Ardern saying nation is in robust position to fight coronavirusThe New Zealand government\u2019s economic response to coronavirus has been criticised as \u201cstartlingly flat-foote&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,914,56,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-new-zealand","category-science"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15623,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15622\/revisions\/15623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}