{"id":30158,"date":"2021-03-25T10:09:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T01:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/25\/anger-and-sadness-over-new-rules-for-returning-to-new-zealand-covid"},"modified":"2021-03-25T10:09:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T01:09:29","slug":"unless-youre-wealthy-dont-come-back-dismay-over-new-rules-for-returning-to-nz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30158","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Unless you&#8217;re wealthy, don&#8217;t come back&#8217;: dismay over new rules for returning to NZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charge of $3,100 will have to be paid if a returnee leaves again within six months, instead of the previous three months<\/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 Zealanders overseas have reacted with despair to news that the government has doubled the time returning citizens are required to stay to avoid paying a $3,100 quarantine fee.<\/p>\n<p>The changes, announced on Wednesday, mean people coming home from overseas will need to stay six months, rather than the previous three, to be exempt from the fee \u2013 a move the government has said will help make the managed isolation system \u201cmore financially sustainable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/25\/anger-and-sadness-over-new-rules-for-returning-to-new-zealand-covid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charge of $3,100 will have to be paid if a returnee leaves again within six months, instead of the previous three monthsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealanders overseas have reacted with despair to news that the gover&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"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-30158","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\/30158","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\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30159,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30158\/revisions\/30159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}