{"id":19073,"date":"2020-06-08T12:02:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T03:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/jun\/08\/five-ways-new-zealand-can-keep-covid-19-cases-at-zero"},"modified":"2020-06-08T12:02:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T03:02:40","slug":"five-ways-new-zealand-can-keep-covid-19-cases-at-zero-michael-baker-and-nick-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19073","title":{"rendered":"Five ways New Zealand can keep Covid-19 cases at zero | Michael Baker and Nick Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Modelling shows it is very likely New Zealand has eliminated coronavirus. Keeping it that way is the next big challenge <\/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>Today, for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/covid-19-has-now-reached-new-zealand-how-prepared-is-it-to-deal-with-a-pandemic-132857\">first time since 28 February<\/a>, New Zealand has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.govt.nz\/news-media\/media-releases\/no-active-cases-covid-19\">no active cases<\/a>&nbsp;of Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/pubhealthexpert\/2020\/05\/25\/when-can-covid-19-be-declared-eliminated-from-nz-new-modelling-study\/\">our modelling<\/a> at the the University of Otago, it is now very likely (well above a 95% chance) New Zealand has completely&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzma.org.nz\/journal-articles\/new-zealands-elimination-strategy-for-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-what-is-required-to-make-it-work\">eliminated the virus<\/a>. This is in line with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/new-zealand-hits-a-95-chance-of-eliminating-coronavirus-but-we-predict-new-cases-will-emerge-139973\">modelling<\/a> by our colleagues at Te P\u016bnaha Matatini (a research centre based at University of Auckland).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/jun\/08\/five-ways-new-zealand-can-keep-covid-19-cases-at-zero\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modelling shows it is very likely New Zealand has eliminated coronavirus. Keeping it that way is the next big challenge Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageToday, for the&nbsp;first time since 28 February, New Zealand has&nbsp;n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1206,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19073","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\/1206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19074,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19073\/revisions\/19074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}