{"id":19383,"date":"2020-06-17T03:51:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T18:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/16\/outbreaks-in-beijing-and-new-zealand-highlight-perils-of-relaxing-rules"},"modified":"2020-06-17T03:51:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T18:51:51","slug":"covid-19-outbreaks-in-new-zealand-and-china-highlight-stark-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19383","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 outbreaks in New Zealand and China highlight stark choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To stay coronavirus free, countries face unsustainable social and economic losses <\/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>Beijing and New Zealand had both declared themselves Covid-19-free by mid-June, life returning to an enviable normality of schools and shops, work and human contact. It didn\u2019t last long.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, parts of the Chinese capital went back on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/13\/beijing-china-new-covid-19-cases-linked-to-food-market\">\u201cwartime\u201d footing<\/a> after a cluster of cases emerged linked to the city\u2019s biggest wholesale food market. Movement restrictions are back and residents have already been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/16\/beijing-coronavirus-outbreak-travel-restricted-china-severe-measures\">warned against leaving the city.<\/a> Schools are closed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/16\/outbreaks-in-beijing-and-new-zealand-highlight-perils-of-relaxing-rules\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To stay coronavirus free, countries face unsustainable social and economic losses Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBeijing and New Zealand had both declared themselves Covid-19-free by mid-June, life returning to an enviable &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"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":[41,50,1069,914,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","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\/19383","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19384,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19383\/revisions\/19384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}