{"id":26743,"date":"2021-01-13T10:59:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T01:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/13\/new-zealand-stands-by-travel-bubble-plan-despite-covid-outbreaks-in-australia"},"modified":"2021-01-13T10:59:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T01:59:52","slug":"new-zealand-stands-by-travel-bubble-plan-despite-covid-outbreaks-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26743","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand stands by &#8216;travel bubble&#8217; plan despite Covid outbreaks in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quarantine-free movement by April could still be on the cards, even amid extra caution over new variant<\/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 New Zealand government is standing by its plan to establish a trans-Tasman travel \u201cbubble\u201d by April, despite community transmission of coronavirus in several Australian states.<\/p>\n<p>In mid-December the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, announced that quarantine-free movement between Australia and New Zealand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/14\/jacinda-ardern-new-zealand-and-australia-to-launch-travel-bubble-in-early-2021\">would be instated<\/a> by the end of March, contingent on no changes in the Covid-19 status of each country. \u201cI think New Zealanders desperately need a break,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/13\/new-zealand-stands-by-travel-bubble-plan-despite-covid-outbreaks-in-australia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quarantine-free movement by April could still be on the cards, even amid extra caution over new variantCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe New Zealand government is standing by its plan to establish a trans-Tasman travel \u201cbu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1815,"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":[41,43,1066,914,56,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-new-zealand","category-science","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\/26743","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\/1815"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26745,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26743\/revisions\/26745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}