{"id":24471,"date":"2020-11-05T10:12:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T01:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/05\/nearly-a-third-of-new-zealanders-felt-badly-distressed-in-covid-lockdown"},"modified":"2020-11-05T10:12:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T01:12:12","slug":"nearly-a-third-of-new-zealanders-felt-badly-distressed-in-covid-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24471","title":{"rendered":"Nearly a third of New Zealanders felt badly distressed in Covid lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young people worst affected with almost half of those aged 18-24 reporting moderate to severe distress<\/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>The wellbeing of New Zealanders plummeted during the country\u2019s nationwide lockdown, research has found, with nearly a third experiencing \u201cmoderate to severe psychological distress\u201d \u2013 especially young people.<\/p>\n<p>On 15 March Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister, ordered the total closure of the country\u2019s borders and on 26 March the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/08\/new-zealand-whole-again-as-auckland-lockdown-ends\">entire population of five million entered a strict lockdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/05\/nearly-a-third-of-new-zealanders-felt-badly-distressed-in-covid-lockdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young people worst affected with almost half of those aged 18-24 reporting moderate to severe distressCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe wellbeing of New Zealanders plummeted during the country\u2019s nationwide lockdown, resear&#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":[41,1066,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24471","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\/24471","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=24471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24472,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24471\/revisions\/24472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}