{"id":18072,"date":"2020-05-11T14:19:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T05:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/11\/ardern-announces-new-zealand-will-reopen-schools-offices-and-restaurants-this-week"},"modified":"2020-05-11T14:19:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T05:19:28","slug":"ardern-thanks-team-of-5-million-as-new-zealand-reopens-schools-and-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18072","title":{"rendered":"Ardern thanks &#8216;team of 5 million&#8217; as New Zealand reopens schools and offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regional travel will be allowed under level 2 restrictions but the nation\u2019s borders will remain closed for a \u2018long time\u2019, PM warns<\/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 Zealanders will begin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/07\/new-zealand-halfway-down-everest-as-ardern-plans-big-easing-of-covid-lockdown\">easing back to normality<\/a> this week as almost two months of strict lockdown comes to an end following the country\u2019s successful battle against Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Prime minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Monday that the country would downgrade from Level 3 to Level 2 restrictions on Thursday, allowing schools to reopen, workers to return to their offices, and restaurants and retail stores to resume trade. Recreational and competitive sport could also restart, and libraries, playgrounds and museums would open.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/11\/ardern-announces-new-zealand-will-reopen-schools-offices-and-restaurants-this-week\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regional travel will be allowed under level 2 restrictions but the nation\u2019s borders will remain closed for a \u2018long time\u2019, PM warnsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealanders will begin easing back to normality this week a&#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":[41,1069,268,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18072","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=18072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18073,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18072\/revisions\/18073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}