{"id":28560,"date":"2021-02-17T10:07:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T01:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/17\/new-zealand-reports-two-new-cases-of-covid-19-community-transmission"},"modified":"2021-02-17T13:46:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T04:46:21","slug":"new-zealand-reports-two-new-cases-of-covid-19-community-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28560","title":{"rendered":"Auckland lockdown to end despite three new cases of Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern said she does not believe community transmission is widespread <\/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 has reported three new locally transmitted cases of Covid-19, as prime minister Jacinda Ardern surprised many by announcing Auckland\u2019s three-day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/14\/new-zealand-covid-outbreak-race-to-trace-three-local-cases-in-auckland\">lockdown <\/a>would end at midnight.<\/p>\n<p>Ardern said she did not believe community transmission was \u201cwidespread\u201d, as new cases were minimal, and wastewater testing had reported negative results in the country\u2019s largest city. The rest of the country will drop to Level 1 restrictions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/17\/new-zealand-reports-two-new-cases-of-covid-19-community-transmission\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern said she does not believe community transmission is widespread Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand has reported three new locally transmitted cases of Covid-19, as prime minister Jacinda Ardern surpris&#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":[41,1066,914,56,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/28560","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=28560"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28587,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28560\/revisions\/28587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}