{"id":19883,"date":"2020-06-30T12:49:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T03:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/jacinda-ardern-decries-dangerous-calls-to-reopen-new-zealand-borders-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-06-30T12:49:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T03:49:52","slug":"jacinda-ardern-decries-dangerous-calls-to-reopen-new-zealand-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19883","title":{"rendered":"Jacinda Ardern decries &#8216;dangerous&#8217; calls to reopen New Zealand borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prime minister appeared to be responding to the opposition leader, who has said keeping the borders closed for months or years is \u2018untenable\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>Jacinda Ardern has decried as \u201cdangerous\u201d her detractors\u2019 calls to open New Zealand\u2019s borders \u2013 or present a plan for how she will do so \u2013 as the country remains largely free of Covid-19 while the virus spreads abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Telling reporters on Tuesday that she had heard \u201ccalls for our borders to be opened to the world\u201d, the New Zealand prime minister referred to \u201ca world where the virus is escalating not slowing and not even peaking in some countries yet, where cases exceed 10 million globally and deaths half a million, where countries are extending and returning to lockdown\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/jacinda-ardern-decries-dangerous-calls-to-reopen-new-zealand-borders-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prime minister appeared to be responding to the opposition leader, who has said keeping the borders closed for months or years is \u2018untenable\u2019Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJacinda Ardern has decried as \u201cdangerous\u201d her d&#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":[41,1069,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","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\/19883","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=19883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19884,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19883\/revisions\/19884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}