{"id":16240,"date":"2020-03-23T11:29:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T02:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/23\/kiwis-go-home-new-zealand-to-go-into-month-long-lockdown-to-fight-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-03-23T11:29:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T02:29:06","slug":"kiwis-go-home-new-zealand-to-go-into-month-long-lockdown-to-fight-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16240","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Kiwis &ndash; go home&#8217;: New Zealand to go into month-long lockdown to fight coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern brings in \u2018the most significant restrictions on New Zealanders\u2019 movements in modern history\u2019 as cases rise past 100<\/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>New Zealand is preparing to enter a month-long nationwide lockdown from Wednesday, with the entire country ordered to stay home apart from those in essential services.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday the nation was given 48 hours to prepare for schools, businesses, and community services to turn off the lights in a desperate bid to stem the spread of the coronavirus. The move came after the number of cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand rose past 100.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/23\/kiwis-go-home-new-zealand-to-go-into-month-long-lockdown-to-fight-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern brings in \u2018the most significant restrictions on New Zealanders\u2019 movements in modern history\u2019 as cases rise past 100Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand is preparing to enter a month-long nationwide lock&#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":[41,1069,914,268,56,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-science","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\/16240","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=16240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16260,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16240\/revisions\/16260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}