{"id":16894,"date":"2020-04-06T14:04:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T05:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/06\/new-zealand-sees-positive-signs-amid-strict-coronavirus-lockdown"},"modified":"2020-04-06T14:04:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T05:04:36","slug":"new-zealand-sees-positive-signs-amid-strict-coronavirus-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16894","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand sees &#8216;positive&#8217; signs amid strict coronavirus lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern won\u2019t rule out pay cuts for ministers when recovery starts as stay-at-home measures deliver some success<\/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 appears to have dodged an \u201cexponential\u201d rise in coronavirus cases, the country\u2019s director-general of health has said, saying he feels \u201cencouraged\u201d that strict, nationwide lockdown measures are beginning to take effect.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s 5 million people have been in total lockdown for nearly two weeks, with no-one allowed to leave their home unless fetching essential supplies, or taking exercise.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/06\/new-zealand-sees-positive-signs-amid-strict-coronavirus-lockdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern won\u2019t rule out pay cuts for ministers when recovery starts as stay-at-home measures deliver some successCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand appears to have dodged an \u201cexponential\u201d rise in coronavirus c&#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-16894","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\/16894","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=16894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16895,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16894\/revisions\/16895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}