{"id":17638,"date":"2020-04-28T09:22:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T00:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/28\/new-zealands-top-health-official-reacts-with-stunned-silence-to-trumps-disinfectant-idea"},"modified":"2020-04-28T09:22:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T00:22:35","slug":"new-zealands-top-health-official-reacts-with-stunned-silence-to-trumps-disinfectant-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17638","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand&#8217;s top health official reacts with stunned silence to Trump&#8217;s disinfectant idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Ashley Bloomfield says \u2018under no circumstances\u2019 should Kiwis inject themselves with bleach as country eases lockdown<\/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\u2019s most senior public health official has refused to respond to questions on using bleach injections to fight Covid-19, deploying silence and slow blinks to communicate his feelings instead.<\/p>\n<p>Public health officials around the world have rejected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/apr\/25\/donald-trump-coronavirus-disinfectant-sarcastic-tipping-point\">Donald Trump\u2019s musings last week<\/a> on whether injecting disinfectant could help fight the virus, as highly dangerous. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/28\/new-zealands-top-health-official-reacts-with-stunned-silence-to-trumps-disinfectant-idea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Ashley Bloomfield says \u2018under no circumstances\u2019 should Kiwis inject themselves with bleach as country eases lockdownCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand\u2019s most senior public health official has refused to respond t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[41,1069,415,268,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-donald-trump","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\/17638","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17639,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17638\/revisions\/17639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}