{"id":29656,"date":"2021-03-12T10:04:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T01:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/12\/new-zealand-jacinda-ardern-criticised-over-timing-of-auckland-covid-alert-change"},"modified":"2021-03-12T10:04:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T01:04:07","slug":"new-zealand-jacinda-ardern-criticised-over-timing-of-auckland-covid-alert-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29656","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand: Jacinda Ardern criticised over timing of Auckland Covid alert change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say decision to downgrade alert levels should have been announced earlier to let bars and restaurants get ready as PM\u2019s husband weighs in<\/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\u2019s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has come under fire for the timing of Auckland\u2019s alert level change, with critics saying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/438199\/auckland-bars-restaurants-brace-for-alert-level-change-announcement\">the decision should have been announced earlier<\/a> to allow restaurants and cafes to prepare for capacity crowds at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Auckland moved to alert level 1 from midday on Friday, bringing it in line with the rest of the country, after the government declared the February outbreak to be contained.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/12\/new-zealand-jacinda-ardern-criticised-over-timing-of-auckland-covid-alert-change\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say decision to downgrade alert levels should have been announced earlier to let bars and restaurants get ready as PM\u2019s husband weighs inCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand\u2019s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1978,"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-29656","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\/29656","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\/1978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29690,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29656\/revisions\/29690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}