{"id":21401,"date":"2020-08-06T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/05\/a-matter-of-when-not-if-new-zealand-begins-battle-against-covid-fatigue"},"modified":"2020-08-06T05:00:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T20:00:10","slug":"a-matter-of-when-not-if-new-zealand-begins-battle-against-covid-fatigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21401","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A matter of when not if&#8217;: New Zealand begins battle against &#8216;Covid fatigue&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spooked by outbreaks in Australia and Hong Kong, authorities are urging \u2018constant vigilance\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>Customers stream into a central Wellington cafe, past a QR code posted on the door that allows people to check in on the New Zealand government\u2019s Covid-19 tracing app. None pause to pull out their phones. Down the footpath outside, crosses of tape \u2013 denoting physical distancing measures for shoppers that ended months ago \u2013 feel like a reminder of a bad dream.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand has attained the status of one of the world\u2019s safest countries when it comes to the coronavirus; there is no known community transmission in the country and life has largely returned to normal. But with one eye on nations where the <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\">virus was once quashed<\/a> before spiralling out of control again, officials and the government have changed their language in recent days in order to fight a new battle \u2013 this time against complacency.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/05\/a-matter-of-when-not-if-new-zealand-begins-battle-against-covid-fatigue\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spooked by outbreaks in Australia and Hong Kong, authorities are urging \u2018constant vigilance\u2019Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCustomers stream into a central Wellington cafe, past a QR code posted on the door that allows peopl&#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-21401","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\/21401","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=21401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21402,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21401\/revisions\/21402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}