{"id":16081,"date":"2020-03-19T15:10:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T06:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/19\/new-zealand-closes-borders-to-foreigners-amid-coronavirus-crisis"},"modified":"2020-03-19T15:10:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T06:10:58","slug":"new-zealand-and-australia-close-borders-to-foreigners-amid-coronavirus-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16081","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand and Australia close borders to foreigners amid coronavirus crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern says she recognises NZ ban starting on Thursday night is \u2018extraordinary\u2019, as Scott Morrison says Australia\u2019s borders close on Friday <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Australia and New Zealand\u2019s borders will be shut to anyone who is not a citizen or resident, in an escalation of both countries\u2019 efforts to tackle the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt no time in New Zealand\u2019s history has a power like this been used, and I recognise how extraordinary it is,\u201d New Zealand\u2019s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/19\/new-zealand-closes-borders-to-foreigners-amid-coronavirus-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern says she recognises NZ ban starting on Thursday night is \u2018extraordinary\u2019, as Scott Morrison says Australia\u2019s borders close on Friday Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAustralia and New Zealand\u2019s borders will be &#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":[41,1069,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16081","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=16081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16082,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16081\/revisions\/16082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}