{"id":16291,"date":"2020-03-24T10:44:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T01:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/24\/new-zealand-coronavirus-cases-rise-50-in-one-day-as-lockdown-nears"},"modified":"2020-03-24T10:44:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T01:44:56","slug":"new-zealand-coronavirus-cases-rise-nearly-50-in-one-day-as-lockdown-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16291","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand: coronavirus cases rise nearly 50% in one day as lockdown nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Panic buying of food \u2013 and guns \u2013 as Wednesday deadline for national shutdown approaches<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just over 24 hours before New Zealand is due to enter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/23\/kiwis-go-home-new-zealand-to-go-into-month-long-lockdown-to-fight-coronavirus\">full lockdown<\/a>, 40 new cases of coronavirus have been confirmed, bring the country\u2019s total to 155.<\/p>\n<p>Four of the cases were confirmed as contracted through community transmission and six people were in hospital, but none in intensive care, said the director general of health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/24\/new-zealand-coronavirus-cases-rise-50-in-one-day-as-lockdown-nears\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panic buying of food \u2013 and guns \u2013 as Wednesday deadline for national shutdown approachesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJust over 24 hours before New Zealand is due to enter full lockdown, 40 new cases of coronavirus have 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-16291","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\/16291","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=16291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16292,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16291\/revisions\/16292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}