{"id":27876,"date":"2021-02-05T14:23:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T05:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/05\/new-zealand-to-resume-taking-refugees-a-year-after-covid-border-closure"},"modified":"2021-02-05T14:23:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T05:23:29","slug":"new-zealand-to-resume-taking-refugees-a-year-after-covid-border-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27876","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand to resume taking refugees a year after Covid border closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-five will arrive in February, with a total of 210 expected to enter by June; all will be required to quarantine for 14 days<\/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 will start receiving refugees again this month, nearly a year after it shut its borders to stop the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, the government says.<\/p>\n<p>A group of 35 refugees will arrive in February, with a total of about 210 refugees expected to have entered the country by 30 June, Immigration New Zealand and officials said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/05\/new-zealand-to-resume-taking-refugees-a-year-after-covid-border-closure\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-five will arrive in February, with a total of 210 expected to enter by June; all will be required to quarantine for 14 daysCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand will start receiving refugees again this month, ne&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,1066,56,494,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-new-zealand","category-refugees","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\/27876","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27877,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27876\/revisions\/27877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}