{"id":26303,"date":"2021-01-04T11:11:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T02:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/04\/new-zealand-tightens-border-again-amid-fears-over-new-covid-strain"},"modified":"2021-01-04T11:11:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T02:11:27","slug":"new-zealand-tightens-border-again-amid-fears-over-new-covid-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26303","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand tightens border again amid fears over new Covid strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travellers from UK and US now required to test negative before departure and take an extra test on arrival as \u2018extra precautionary steps\u2019 <\/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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/newzealand\">New Zealand<\/a> has further tightened border controls amid mounting anxiety about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/01\/now-coronavirus-variant-us-since-october\">new strain of coronavirus<\/a> driving up infections overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Six cases of the new variant of the virus \u2013 five in arrivals from the UK and one from South Africa \u2013 were recorded in managed isolation facilities in the two weeks leading up to Christmas.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/04\/new-zealand-tightens-border-again-amid-fears-over-new-covid-strain\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travellers from UK and US now required to test negative before departure and take an extra test on arrival as \u2018extra precautionary steps\u2019 Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand has further tightened border controls amid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1768,"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":[41,1066,914,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26303","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\/1768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26306,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26303\/revisions\/26306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}