{"id":22178,"date":"2020-08-28T12:14:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T03:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/28\/auckland-lockdown-to-ease-despite-new-covid-cases"},"modified":"2020-08-28T12:14:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T03:14:53","slug":"auckland-lockdown-to-ease-despite-new-covid-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22178","title":{"rendered":"Auckland lockdown to ease despite new Covid cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finance minister says \u2018we are nearly there\u2019 but urges residents to get tested if they display symptoms<\/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>Auckland is on track to move out of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/24\/ardern-says-2020-has-been-frankly-terrible-as-auckland-lockdown-extended\">level 3 lockdown <\/a>on Sunday despite new cases of Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s largest city has been in level 3 for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/13\/here-we-go-again-auckland-fears-a-long-lockdown-as-coronavirus-returns\">more than two weeks<\/a> and on Friday the finance minister, Grant Robertson, said that at midnight on Sunday Auckland would move to level 2.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/28\/auckland-lockdown-to-ease-despite-new-covid-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance minister says \u2018we are nearly there\u2019 but urges residents to get tested if they display symptomsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAuckland is on track to move out of level 3 lockdown on Sunday despite new cases of Covid-&#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":[41,1069,914,56,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-new-zealand","category-science","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\/22178","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=22178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22179,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22178\/revisions\/22179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}