{"id":27363,"date":"2021-01-26T14:18:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T05:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/26\/new-zealand-borders-to-stay-closed-until-citizens-are-vaccinated-and-protected"},"modified":"2021-01-26T14:18:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T05:18:44","slug":"new-zealand-borders-to-stay-closed-until-citizens-are-vaccinated-and-protected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27363","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand borders to stay closed until citizens are &#8216;vaccinated and protected&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand can return to \u2018normal\u2019 only when the rest of the world does too<\/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>Jacinda Ardern has said New Zealand and \u201cthe world\u201d need to return to some semblance of normality before she opens the country\u2019s borders to foreign nationals.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister shut the border in mid-March and said on Tuesday she would not open it again until New Zealanders were \u201cvaccinated and protected\u201d \u2013 a process that will not start for the general population until the middle of this year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/26\/new-zealand-borders-to-stay-closed-until-citizens-are-vaccinated-and-protected\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand can return to \u2018normal\u2019 only when the rest of the world does tooCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJacinda Ardern has said New Zealand and \u201cthe world\u201d need to return to some semblance of normality&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1814,"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":[41,43,1066,914,268,56,386],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-scott-morrison"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27363","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\/1814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27365,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27363\/revisions\/27365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}