{"id":21722,"date":"2020-08-16T06:46:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T21:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/16\/go-hard-go-early-now-new-zealand-goes-back-to-the-drawing-board"},"modified":"2020-08-16T06:46:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T21:46:18","slug":"go-hard-go-early-now-new-zealand-goes-back-to-the-drawing-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21722","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Go hard, go early&#8217; \u2013\u00a0now New Zealand goes back to the drawing board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City of Auckland is under coronavirus lockdown \u2013 and ahead of election the government is being criticised over border control, quarantine and testing<\/p>\n<p>When scientists in Auckland began modelling an outbreak of Covid-19 in the city\u2019s densely populated southern regions \u2013 situated right by the country\u2019s only international airport \u2013 they hoped they were participating in a drill scenario.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is exactly the type of outbreak we were worried about, and in fact it\u2019s exactly what happened,\u201d said Professor Shaun Hendy, who works modelling the progression of the disease for the government.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/16\/go-hard-go-early-now-new-zealand-goes-back-to-the-drawing-board\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City of Auckland is under coronavirus lockdown \u2013 and ahead of election the government is being criticised over border control, quarantine and testingWhen scientists in Auckland began modelling an outbreak of Covid-19 in the city\u2019s densely populated sou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"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-21722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21722","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\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21734,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21722\/revisions\/21734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}