{"id":24087,"date":"2020-10-23T11:19:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T02:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/23\/new-zealanders-urged-to-be-vigilant-on-long-weekend-as-covid-app-use-falls"},"modified":"2020-10-23T11:19:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T02:19:02","slug":"new-zealanders-urged-to-be-vigilant-on-long-weekend-as-covid-app-use-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24087","title":{"rendered":"New Zealanders urged to be vigilant on long weekend as Covid app use falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Use of contact tracing app has dropped ahead of three-day holiday weekend being seen as \u2018rehearsal\u2019 for Christmas<\/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>As New Zealanders prepare for holiday long weekend the government is imploring Kiwis to remain vigilant in the face of Covid-19 after an infected man walked into a popular Auckland pub last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Labour weekend is spent by many travelling to holiday hotspots around the country. However, with the use of the government\u2019s Covid tracer app dropping to one of its lowest usage rates, the three-day holiday is also being used to \u201crehearse\u201d for the Christmas holidays.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/23\/new-zealanders-urged-to-be-vigilant-on-long-weekend-as-covid-app-use-falls\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use of contact tracing app has dropped ahead of three-day holiday weekend being seen as \u2018rehearsal\u2019 for ChristmasCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAs New Zealanders prepare for holiday long weekend the government is imploring &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"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":[41,1066,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","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\/24087","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\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24088,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24087\/revisions\/24088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}