{"id":31135,"date":"2021-04-20T12:18:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T03:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/20\/new-zealand-airport-worker-tests-positive-to-covid-on-second-day-of-travel-bubble"},"modified":"2021-04-20T12:18:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T03:18:47","slug":"new-zealand-airport-worker-tests-positive-to-covid-on-second-day-of-travel-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31135","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand airport worker tests positive to Covid on second day of travel bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern says cleaner was fully vaccinated and \u2018all signs point\u2019 to case having no connection to Australian arrivals <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/19\/joy-actually-happy-reunions-fill-auckland-airport-as-trans-tasman-bubble-begins\">Joy, actually: happy reunions fill Auckland airport as trans-Tasman bubble begins<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A New Zealand airport worker has tested positive for Covid-19, just one day after the country opened a quarantine-free travel bubble with Australia. The border worker is employed at Auckland airport, the largest and busiest airport in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the press, the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, said the worker had been fully vaccinated early in the rollout, and had tested positive as part of routine screening. She said the worker cleaned planes coming in from \u201cred zone\u201d, or high-risk countries, and \u201call signs point\u201d to this case having no connection to new Australian arrivals. There was no indication it will affect the newly minted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/19\/jacinda-ardern-heralds-very-significant-day-as-trans-tasman-travel-bubble-begins\">travel bubble<\/a> between Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/20\/new-zealand-airport-worker-tests-positive-to-covid-on-second-day-of-travel-bubble\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern says cleaner was fully vaccinated and \u2018all signs point\u2019 to case having no connection to Australian arrivals Joy, actually: happy reunions fill Auckland airport as trans-Tasman bubble beginsA New Zealand airport worker has tested positive&#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":[376,41,858,43,1066,914,268,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-transport","category-asia-pacific","category-auckland","category-australia-news","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31135","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=31135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31141,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31135\/revisions\/31141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}