{"id":28420,"date":"2021-02-14T15:35:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T06:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/14\/new-zealand-covid-outbreak-race-to-trace-three-local-cases-in-auckland"},"modified":"2021-02-14T16:57:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T07:57:59","slug":"new-zealand-covid-outbreak-ardern-puts-auckland-into-three-day-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28420","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Covid outbreak: Ardern puts Auckland into three-day lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three members of South Auckland family tested positive, prompting Jacinda Ardern to place region into level 3 measures<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lockdown measures will be introduced across Auckland from midnight on Sunday, while restrictions will also be increased elsewhere in New Zealand, after three local cases were reported over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, said the government was taking a cautionary approach to the cases, and acting under the assumption that they involved new, more transmissible strains of the virus. The source of the infections is not yet known.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/14\/new-zealand-covid-outbreak-race-to-trace-three-local-cases-in-auckland\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three members of South Auckland family tested positive, prompting Jacinda Ardern to place region into level 3 measuresCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageLockdown measures will be introduced across Auckland from midnight on Sund&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"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":[41,1066,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-new-zealand","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\/28420","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28420"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28457,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28420\/revisions\/28457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}