{"id":19932,"date":"2020-07-01T16:07:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T07:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/01\/post-covid-new-zealand-tackles-a-new-threat-anxiety-over-an-uncertain-future"},"modified":"2020-07-01T16:07:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T07:07:31","slug":"post-covid-new-zealand-tackles-a-new-threat-anxiety-over-an-uncertain-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19932","title":{"rendered":"Post-Covid New Zealand tackles a new threat \u2013 anxiety over an uncertain future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nation living with \u2018reduced visibility\u2019 of what will happen in the coming months and a growing sense of isolation<\/p>\n<p>When Jacinda Ardern urged New Zealanders to stand firm behind her government\u2019s decision to keep the country\u2019s borders tightly closed against Covid-19, the prime minister described a reality that many around the world could only imagine with envy. \u201cWe get to enjoy weekend sport, go to restaurants and bars, our workplaces are open, and we can gather in whatever numbers we like,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealanders returned in June to normal life with strict border controls the only remnant of a pandemic that months ago had threatened to sweep the country as it had in most others before a strict lockdown quashed its spread.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/01\/post-covid-new-zealand-tackles-a-new-threat-anxiety-over-an-uncertain-future\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nation living with \u2018reduced visibility\u2019 of what will happen in the coming months and a growing sense of isolationWhen Jacinda Ardern urged New Zealanders to stand firm behind her government\u2019s decision to keep the country\u2019s borders tightly closed agains&#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-19932","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\/19932","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=19932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19933,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19932\/revisions\/19933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}