{"id":16676,"date":"2020-03-31T11:53:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T02:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/31\/tougher-new-zealand-rules-on-covid-19-could-set-it-apart-as-normal-nation-after-lockdown"},"modified":"2020-03-31T11:53:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T02:53:02","slug":"tougher-new-zealand-rules-on-covid-19-could-set-it-apart-as-normal-nation-after-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16676","title":{"rendered":"Tougher New Zealand rules on Covid-19 could set it apart as &#8216;normal&#8217; nation after lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Epidemiologist tells parliamentary committee even more stringent measures could \u2018eliminate virus over next few weeks\u2019<\/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>The New Zealand government\u2019s swift move to lock down the country when there had been no deaths and only a few hundred cases of Covid-19 has drawn widespread praise &#8211; but an epidemiologist told a committee of lawmakers on Tuesday that the rules alone would not be enough to curb the virus\u2019 spread.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like pressing the pause button on your device,\u201d David Skegg, an emeritus professor of epidemiology at the University of Otago, said of the four-week national lockdown that began last Wednesday. He added that the sacrifices New Zealanders had made by staying at home, and the hit to the country\u2019s economy of a national shutdown, would be \u201ca terrible waste if we don\u2019t pull out all the stops now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/31\/tougher-new-zealand-rules-on-covid-19-could-set-it-apart-as-normal-nation-after-lockdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epidemiologist tells parliamentary committee even more stringent measures could \u2018eliminate virus over next few weeks\u2019Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe New Zealand government\u2019s swift move to lock down the country when there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":756,"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-16676","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\/16676","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\/756"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16677,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16676\/revisions\/16677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}