{"id":21609,"date":"2020-08-12T13:09:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T04:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/12\/global-report-new-zealand-begins-mass-testing-as-australia-records-deadliest-day"},"modified":"2020-08-12T13:09:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T04:09:39","slug":"global-report-new-zealand-begins-mass-testing-as-australia-records-deadliest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21609","title":{"rendered":"Global report: New Zealand begins mass testing as Australia records deadliest day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand to conduct \u2018tens of thousands\u2019 of tests; 21 deaths recorded in Australian state of Victoria; US health secretary sceptical of Russia vaccine<\/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><strong>Australia<\/strong> suffered its deadliest day of the pandemic so far, with 21 deaths in the state of Victoria, as authorities in <strong>New Zealand<\/strong>\u2019s largest city prepared to conduct \u201ctens of thousands\u201d of tests to determine the source of the first locally transmitted cases in over 100 days.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Victorian authorities said the deaths were all among people over 70, with 16 linked to outbreaks in aged care facilities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/12\/global-report-new-zealand-begins-mass-testing-as-australia-records-deadliest-day\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand to conduct \u2018tens of thousands\u2019 of tests; 21 deaths recorded in Australian state of Victoria; US health secretary sceptical of Russia vaccineCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAustralia suffered its deadliest day of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1502,"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":[41,43,1069,914,512,916,56,299,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-new-zealand","category-science","category-us-news","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\/21609","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\/1502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21610,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21609\/revisions\/21610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}