{"id":31452,"date":"2021-04-27T08:11:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T23:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/27\/new-zealand-loses-top-spot-for-best-place-to-be-during-covid-to-singapore"},"modified":"2021-04-27T08:11:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T23:11:42","slug":"new-zealand-loses-top-spot-for-best-place-to-be-during-covid-to-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31452","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand loses top spot for best place to be during Covid to Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slow vaccine rollout cited as the difference between the two countries, both of which have virtually no community coronavirus cases<\/p>\n<ul>\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 been dethroned for the first time as the best place to be during Covid 19, as a result of its slower vaccine rollout. The country was bumped from the top spot by Singapore, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/graphics\/covid-resilience-ranking\/\">Bloomberg\u2019s Covid resilience ranking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While both countries have near-zero community cases, Singapore\u2019s vaccine rollout is much further advanced. So while life was relatively normal in several countries thanks to strong control of the virus, \u201cSingapore has already administered vaccines equivalent to cover a fifth of its population, an aspect of pandemic control that other virus eliminators like New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan are lagging on,\u201d the report concluded.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/27\/new-zealand-loses-top-spot-for-best-place-to-be-during-covid-to-singapore\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slow vaccine rollout cited as the difference between the two countries, both of which have virtually no community coronavirus casesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand has been dethroned for the first time as the best place to be during Covid 19&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"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":[41,1066,914,56,783,565],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-new-zealand","category-singapore","category-vaccines-and-immunisation"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31452","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\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31453,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31452\/revisions\/31453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}