{"id":21631,"date":"2020-08-13T08:10:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T23:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/13\/covid-19-may-have-been-circulating-in-new-zealand-for-weeks-as-fresh-case-emerges"},"modified":"2020-08-13T11:42:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T02:42:07","slug":"covid-19-may-have-been-circulating-in-new-zealand-for-weeks-as-fresh-case-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21631","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand PM says Covid-19 outbreak will &#8216;get worse&#8217; as Auckland cluster grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern sound ominous tone, with expectation of a long lockdown for the country\u2019s biggest city<\/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>Covid-19 may have been circulating in New Zealand\u2019s biggest city for weeks, the country\u2019s top health official has said, as 13 new community cases were confirmed \u2013 all linked to the four cases announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, said the growing cluster in Auckland, now totalling 17, \u201cwould get worse before it gets better\u201d in the city of more than 1.4 million people.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/13\/covid-19-may-have-been-circulating-in-new-zealand-for-weeks-as-fresh-case-emerges\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern sound ominous tone, with expectation of a long lockdown for the country\u2019s biggest cityCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCovid-19 may have been circulating in New Zealand\u2019s biggest city for weeks, the country\u2019s t&#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-21631","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\/21631","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=21631"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21662,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21631\/revisions\/21662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}