{"id":16403,"date":"2020-03-27T13:52:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T04:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/27\/new-zealand-coronavirus-deaths-during-lockdown-could-be-just-20-modelling-suggests"},"modified":"2020-03-27T13:52:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T04:52:20","slug":"new-zealand-coronavirus-deaths-during-lockdown-could-be-just-20-modelling-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16403","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand coronavirus deaths during lockdown could be just 20, modelling suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Restrictions would need to remain in place until a vaccine or other treatment was developed<\/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>Jacinda Ardern has implored New Zealanders to \u201cstay local\u201d during a four-week countrywide lockdown as modelling showed that strict measures adopted by the country could limit deaths to 0.0004% of the population \u2013 or about 20 people.<\/p>\n<p>Research released <a href=\"https:\/\/cpb-ap-se2.wpmucdn.com\/blogs.auckland.ac.nz\/dist\/d\/75\/files\/2017\/01\/Supression-and-Mitigation-New-Zealand-TPM-006.pdf\">by Te P\u016bnaha Matatini<\/a> suggested that, left unchecked, the virus could eventually infect 89% of New Zealand\u2019s population and kill up to 80,000 people in a worst-case scenario.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/27\/new-zealand-coronavirus-deaths-during-lockdown-could-be-just-20-modelling-suggests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restrictions would need to remain in place until a vaccine or other treatment was developedCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJacinda Ardern has implored New Zealanders to \u201cstay local\u201d during a four-week countrywide lockdown as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"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":[41,1069,914,56,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","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\/16403","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\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16404,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16403\/revisions\/16404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}