{"id":17026,"date":"2020-04-09T18:25:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T09:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/09\/have-australia-new-zealand-stopped-covid-19-in-its-tracks-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-04-09T18:25:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T09:25:35","slug":"have-australia-and-new-zealand-stopped-covid-19-in-its-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17026","title":{"rendered":"Have Australia and New Zealand stopped Covid-19 in its tracks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southern hemisphere neighbours have developed different strategies but both are working \u2013 for now<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/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>Its more than 35,000km of coastline was always going to be Australia\u2019s most potent weapon in the fight against coronavirus, but even so, the speed with which it was deployed was breathtaking.<\/p>\n<p>Without warning on Thursday 19 March, the Australian prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/19\/australian-government-moves-to-close-borders-as-new-coronavirus-cases-continue-to-rise\">Scott Morrison, announced<\/a> \u201cAustralia is closing its borders to all-non citizens\u201d, the ban effective from 9pm the next day.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/09\/have-australia-new-zealand-stopped-covid-19-in-its-tracks-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern hemisphere neighbours have developed different strategies but both are working \u2013 for nowCoronavirus \u2013 latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Its more than 35,000km of coastline was always going to be Australia\u2019s most potent weapon in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1204,"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":[41,43,1069,1043,914,56,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-epidemics","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\/17026","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\/1204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17027,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17026\/revisions\/17027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}