{"id":24588,"date":"2020-11-09T14:42:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T05:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/09\/new-zealand-to-send-team-to-investigate-cook-islands-travel-bubble"},"modified":"2020-11-09T14:42:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T05:42:26","slug":"new-zealand-to-send-team-to-investigate-cook-islands-travel-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24588","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand to send team to investigate Cook Islands travel bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts to travel to Cook Islands this weekend to assess travel to Covid-free country that\u2019s heavily dependent on tourism<\/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>New Zealand is inching closer towards establishing its first travel bubble, with the prime minister announcing a reconnaissance team will be heading to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/14\/new-zealand-and-cook-islands-work-on-travel-bridge-to-beat-tourism-slump\">the Cook Islands<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>If the trip goes smoothly a travel bubble could be established within a fortnight, the PM said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/09\/new-zealand-to-send-team-to-investigate-cook-islands-travel-bubble\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts to travel to Cook Islands this weekend to assess travel to Covid-free country that\u2019s heavily dependent on tourismCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand is inching closer towards establishing its first travel bub&#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":[41,43,855,1066,56,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-cook-islands","category-coronavirus","category-new-zealand","category-pacific-islands","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\/24588","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=24588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24589,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24588\/revisions\/24589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}