{"id":19178,"date":"2020-06-11T07:22:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T22:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/11\/pacific-countries-plead-for-inclusion-in-trans-tasman-bubble-as-travel-restrictions-ease"},"modified":"2020-06-11T07:22:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T22:22:57","slug":"pacific-countries-plead-for-inclusion-in-trans-tasman-bubble-as-travel-restrictions-ease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19178","title":{"rendered":"Pacific countries plead for inclusion in &#8216;trans-Tasman bubble&#8217; as travel restrictions ease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many Pacific nations are Covid-free but have been devastated by the economic impacts of the virus<\/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>Pacific Island nations are urging Australia and New Zealand to include them in a planned travel \u201cbubble\u201d, as flights across the region resume.<\/p>\n<p>Pacific governments face a delicate balancing act, weighing the devastating economic impact of border closures and travel restrictions on their tourism-dependent economies, with the risk of widespread and uncontrollable Covid-19 infections if the virus is introduced.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/11\/pacific-countries-plead-for-inclusion-in-trans-tasman-bubble-as-travel-restrictions-ease\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Pacific nations are Covid-free but have been devastated by the economic impacts of the virusCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePacific Island nations are urging Australia and New Zealand to include them in a planned travel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"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":[41,43,1069,346,914,56,874,282,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-new-zealand","category-pacific-islands","category-south-pacific","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\/19178","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19179,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19178\/revisions\/19179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}