{"id":19374,"date":"2020-06-16T13:48:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T04:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/16\/new-zealand-records-first-new-covid-19-cases-after-women-arrive-from-uk-carrying-virus"},"modified":"2020-06-16T13:48:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T04:48:57","slug":"new-zealand-ends-covid-free-run-with-two-cases-from-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19374","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand ends Covid-free run with two cases from UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pair drove nearly 650km to visit dying parent after being released early from quarantine but officials claim public were not at risk<\/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 new cases of coronavirus for 24 days after two women who arrived in the country from Britain were found to be infected.<\/p>\n<p>The pair were released early from government quarantine and permitted to drive from the city of Auckland to Wellington, the capital \u2013 nearly 650km away \u2013 before being diagnosed or even tested, health officials said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/16\/new-zealand-records-first-new-covid-19-cases-after-women-arrive-from-uk-carrying-virus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pair drove nearly 650km to visit dying parent after being released early from quarantine but officials claim public were not at riskCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand has recorded its first new cases of coronavirus &#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":[41,1069,914,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","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\/19374","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=19374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19375,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19374\/revisions\/19375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}