{"id":21293,"date":"2020-08-03T14:10:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T05:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/03\/they-didnt-close-the-deal-new-zealand-looks-on-in-horror-at-melbourne-covid-19-crisis"},"modified":"2020-08-03T14:10:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T05:10:14","slug":"they-didnt-close-the-deal-new-zealand-looks-on-in-horror-at-melbourne-covid-19-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21293","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;They didn&#8217;t close the deal&#8217;: New Zealand looks on in horror at Melbourne Covid-19 crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia and NZ were once both heralded as coronavirus success stories, but Victorian outbreak has sparked anxiety across the Tasman<\/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>Weeks ago they were praised globally as two countries acting in tandem to eliminate the spread of Covid-19. But on Monday, New Zealanders watched in horror as some of their neighbours across the Tasman Sea began their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/aug\/02\/victoria-premier-daniel-andrews-stage-four-coronavirus-lockdown-restrictions-melbourne-covid-19\">strictest period of Covid-19 lockdown <\/a>yet after a resurgence of cases \u2013 while their own country continued to record good news in the fight against the virus.<\/p>\n<p>It is approaching 100 days since the last \u201cmystery\u201d case of the coronavirus \u2013 meaning an infection transmitted locally from an unknown source \u2013 was diagnosed in New Zealand, and apart from strict border measures <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/05\/cant-quite-believe-it-new-zealand-tiptoes-towards-elimination-of-coronavirus\">life has been back to normal<\/a> since early June, following one of the world\u2019s strictest lockdowns beginning in late March. There are 27 confirmed cases of the virus in the country, all of them confined in quarantine facilities, and 22 people have died since the pandemic began.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/03\/they-didnt-close-the-deal-new-zealand-looks-on-in-horror-at-melbourne-covid-19-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia and NZ were once both heralded as coronavirus success stories, but Victorian outbreak has sparked anxiety across the TasmanCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWeeks ago they were praised globally as two countries actin&#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":[41,43,1069,914,56,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","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\/21293","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=21293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21294,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21293\/revisions\/21294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}