{"id":25366,"date":"2020-12-04T10:50:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T01:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/04\/new-zealand-covid-minister-urges-patience-in-wait-for-vaccine-approval"},"modified":"2020-12-04T10:50:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T01:50:54","slug":"new-zealand-covid-minister-urges-patience-in-wait-for-vaccine-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25366","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Covid minister urges patience in wait for vaccine approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Hipkins says it is understandable that other countries in much worse situations have fast-tracked approval<\/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\u2019s Covid-19 minister has called for patience in the country\u2019s vaccine roll-out programme, saying he was unlikely to follow the UK in using emergency provisions to fast-track approval.<\/p>\n<p>Covid-19 minister Chris Hipkins said: \u201cWe are in a slightly different position to other countries who are using emergency provisions to approve the vaccine, and in many cases those countries are doing that because they are suffering hugely from Covid, with thousands of people dying every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/04\/new-zealand-covid-minister-urges-patience-in-wait-for-vaccine-approval\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Hipkins says it is understandable that other countries in much worse situations have fast-tracked approvalCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand\u2019s Covid-19 minister has called for patience in the country\u2019s vaccine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[41,1066,346,914,512,56,299,565],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-new-zealand","category-science","category-vaccines-and-immunisation"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25366","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25367,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25366\/revisions\/25367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}