{"id":19694,"date":"2020-06-25T08:33:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T23:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/25\/stay-away-from-us-hostile-response-for-new-zealanders-returning-home-to-covid-lifeboat"},"modified":"2020-06-25T08:33:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T23:33:12","slug":"stay-away-from-us-new-zealanders-returning-home-to-covid-lifeboat-face-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19694","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stay away from us&#8217;: New Zealanders returning home to Covid &#8216;lifeboat&#8217; face backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some Kiwis find a harsh homecoming amid concern about importing coronavirus after months of lockdown sacrifice by \u2018team of 5 million\u2019<\/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>When Ellen, 30, a New Zealander returning home from London, arrived at Auckland airport after a long-haul flight, she understood that she would be transported to a local hotel a short bus ride away for a fortnight\u2019s government-mandated quarantine. Instead \u2013 with no warning, or chance to buy water or use the toilet \u2013 she found herself on a four-hour bus trip to Rotorua, a city 225km away, to spend her quarantine there.<\/p>\n<p>When she tweeted about her experience \u2013 New Zealand\u2019s government had started to use hotels in Rotorua and the South Island city of Christchurch to quarantine returning travellers as Auckland reached capacity \u2013 it didn\u2019t take long for responders to chide Ellen for what they saw as complaining. \u201cStay away from us until you\u2019re declared safe,\u201d one wrote. \u201cSo sorry if we don\u2019t care about your food needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/25\/stay-away-from-us-hostile-response-for-new-zealanders-returning-home-to-covid-lifeboat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Kiwis find a harsh homecoming amid concern about importing coronavirus after months of lockdown sacrifice by \u2018team of 5 million\u2019Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWhen Ellen, 30, a New Zealander returning home from London,&#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":[41,1069,914,268,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-jacinda-ardern","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\/19694","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=19694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19695,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19694\/revisions\/19695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}