{"id":21840,"date":"2020-08-19T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/19\/new-zealand-sends-500-military-staff-to-bolster-quarantine-facilities"},"modified":"2020-08-19T15:00:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T06:00:56","slug":"new-zealand-sends-500-military-staff-to-bolster-quarantine-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21840","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand sends 500 military staff to bolster quarantine facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern strengthens border defences amid criticism of quarantine management and still no sign of how virus entered country<\/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>An additional 500 defence force personnel will be deployed to patrol New Zealand\u2019s quarantine hotels, as the investigation continues to track down the source of Auckland\u2019s outbreak more than a week after the first cases emerged.<\/p>\n<p>The military will also be deployed to monitor New Zealand\u2019s maritime borders \u2013 the ports \u2013 as testing of thousands of staff at the Ports and Auckland and Tauranga continues.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/19\/new-zealand-sends-500-military-staff-to-bolster-quarantine-facilities\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern strengthens border defences amid criticism of quarantine management and still no sign of how virus entered countryCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAn additional 500 defence force personnel will be deployed to p&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21840","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=21840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21841,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21840\/revisions\/21841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}