{"id":19069,"date":"2020-06-08T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T04:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/08\/new-zealand-abandons-covid-19-restrictions-after-nation-declared-no-cases"},"modified":"2020-06-08T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T04:18:00","slug":"new-zealand-drops-covid-19-restrictions-after-nation-declared-virus-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19069","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand drops Covid-19 restrictions after nation declared &#8216;virus-free&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern says she \u2018did a little dance\u2019 when she heard there were no cases of coronavirus left in the country<\/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 government will lift all Covid-19 restrictions except stringent border controls almost immediately, prime minister Jacinda Ardern has said, as the nation\u2019s health officials declared that there were no longer any known, active cases of the coronavirus remaining.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are ready,\u201d said Ardern at a news conference in Wellington, adding that New Zealanders had \u201cunited in unprecedented ways to crush the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/08\/new-zealand-abandons-covid-19-restrictions-after-nation-declared-no-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern says she \u2018did a little dance\u2019 when she heard there were no cases of coronavirus left in the countryCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand\u2019s government will lift all Covid-19 restrictions except stringent &#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":[41,1069,268,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19069","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\/19069","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=19069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19070,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19069\/revisions\/19070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}