{"id":20247,"date":"2020-07-07T16:10:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T07:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/07\/new-zealand-politician-admits-leaking-covid-19-private-details-to-media-hamish-walker"},"modified":"2020-07-07T16:10:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T07:10:26","slug":"new-zealand-politician-admits-leaking-covid-19-private-details-to-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20247","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand politician admits leaking Covid-19 private details to media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hamish Walker says he sent list of cases to media to \u2018expose government\u2019s shortcomings\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>A New Zealand politician has confessed that he leaked the private details of all of the country\u2019s active cases of Covid-19 to the media, which decided not to publish or use them.<\/p>\n<p>Hamish Walker, an opposition MP from the centre-right National party, said in a statement he was the source of a list of private information about the 18 active cases, which was provided to several news outlets this week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/07\/new-zealand-politician-admits-leaking-covid-19-private-details-to-media-hamish-walker\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamish Walker says he sent list of cases to media to \u2018expose government\u2019s shortcomings\u2019Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA New Zealand politician has confessed that he leaked the private details of all of the country\u2019s active &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"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":[41,1069,914,56,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-new-zealand","category-science","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\/20247","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\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20248,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20247\/revisions\/20248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}