{"id":17860,"date":"2020-05-04T12:24:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T03:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/04\/new-zealand-records-first-day-with-no-new-covid-19-cases-since-before-lockdown"},"modified":"2020-05-04T12:24:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T03:24:40","slug":"new-zealand-records-first-day-with-no-new-covid-19-cases-since-before-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17860","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand records first day with no new Covid-19 cases since before lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milestone comes as director of health warns public over \u2018slackening off\u2019 when it comes to observing rules<\/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 has recorded its first day of no new cases of Covid-19 since a stringent national lockdown began more than one month ago.<\/p>\n<p>The public has been engrossed by the daily release of case numbers by the health ministry each afternoon \u2013 especially as a deadline looms for the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, to decide whether the country\u2019s lockdown rules will ease further next Monday. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/04\/new-zealand-records-first-day-with-no-new-covid-19-cases-since-before-lockdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milestone comes as director of health warns public over \u2018slackening off\u2019 when it comes to observing rulesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand has recorded its first day of no new cases of Covid-19 since a stringent na&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"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-17860","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\/17860","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\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17861,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17860\/revisions\/17861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}