{"id":21615,"date":"2020-08-12T10:16:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T01:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/12\/new-zealand-delays-dissolving-parliament-amid-mystery-coronavirus-outbreak"},"modified":"2020-08-12T10:16:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T01:16:44","slug":"new-zealand-delays-dissolving-parliament-amid-mystery-coronavirus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21615","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand delays dissolving parliament amid mystery coronavirus outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition party says September election must be delayed, as Auckland placed on level 3 lockdown and four more \u2018probable\u2019 cases confirmed<\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/11\/new-zealand-records-first-new-covid-19-cases-in-102-days\">mystery coronavirus outbreak <\/a>in New Zealand has forced the government to postpone the dissolution of parliament five weeks ahead of a general election that the opposition party is now demanding be delayed.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition National leader Judith Collins criticised the government on Wednesday for a lack of transparency surrounding the community outbreak in Auckland and said the election \u2013 scheduled for September 19 \u2013 should be delayed until November or even next year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/12\/new-zealand-delays-dissolving-parliament-amid-mystery-coronavirus-outbreak\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition party says September election must be delayed, as Auckland placed on level 3 lockdown and four more \u2018probable\u2019 cases confirmedCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA mystery coronavirus outbreak in New Zealand has force&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1411,"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-21615","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\/21615","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\/1411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21616,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21615\/revisions\/21616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}