{"id":17223,"date":"2020-04-16T14:10:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T05:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/16\/jacinda-ardern-signals-modest-loosening-of-new-zealands-coronavirus-lockdown-rules"},"modified":"2020-04-16T14:10:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T05:10:28","slug":"jacinda-ardern-signals-modest-loosening-of-new-zealands-coronavirus-lockdown-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17223","title":{"rendered":"Jacinda Ardern signals modest loosening of New Zealand&#8217;s coronavirus lockdown rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister gives no timetable for move to Australia-like restrictions but warns against complacency<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2020\/mar\/28\/sign-up-for-guardian-australias-daily-coronavirus-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s daily coronavirus email<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Download the free Guardian app to get the most important news notifications<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/datablog\/ng-interactive\/2020\/mar\/26\/how-many-cases-of-coronavirus-are-there-in-australia-live-covid-19-numbers-and-statistics?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Coronavirus Australia maps and cases: live numbers and statistics<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jacinda Ardern has pledged elimination of Covid-19 from the country as her government\u2019s goal, as she foreshadowed a modest loosening of the restrictions that have kept New Zealanders at home for much of the past month.<\/p>\n<p>The country is likely to face weeks more of tight control on recreational and business activities as officials attempt to stamp out the virus in a state the prime minister described as a \u201crecovery room\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/16\/jacinda-ardern-signals-modest-loosening-of-new-zealands-coronavirus-lockdown-rules\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister gives no timetable for move to Australia-like restrictions but warns against complacencySign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s daily coronavirus emailDownload the free Guardian app to get the most important news notificationsCoronavirus Austra&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"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":[41,1069,268,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-jacinda-ardern","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\/17223","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\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17224,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17223\/revisions\/17224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}