{"id":34129,"date":"2021-07-17T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/17\/no-return-to-normal-expected-in-post-pandemic-new-zealand-and-locals-say-thats-fine-covid-19"},"modified":"2021-07-17T05:00:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T20:00:41","slug":"no-return-to-normal-expected-in-post-pandemic-new-zealand-and-locals-say-thats-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34129","title":{"rendered":"No \u2018return to normal\u2019 expected in post-pandemic New Zealand \u2013 and locals say that\u2019s fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polls show New Zealanders accept that life will be different in future and they still feel their country is headed in the right direction <\/p>\n<p>As countries look for a post-pandemic pathway back to \u201cnormal\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/newzealand\">New Zealand<\/a> is making no promises \u2013 and its population seems startlingly happy with that.<\/p>\n<p>Around the world, some governments are hitting full throttle with rhetoric about a \u201creturn to normal\u201d and the freedoms of a pre-pandemic world. New Zealand\u2019s approach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/07\/new-zealand-not-willing-to-risk-uk-style-live-with-covid-policy-says-jacinda-ardern\">has been cautious by contrast<\/a>. The government has made no assurances of a return to normal anytime soon, announced no multi-step \u201cpathway out\u201d, and put forward no timeline for re-opening borders even to vaccinated travellers. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/17\/no-return-to-normal-expected-in-post-pandemic-new-zealand-and-locals-say-thats-fine-covid-19\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polls show New Zealanders accept that life will be different in future and they still feel their country is headed in the right direction As countries look for a post-pandemic pathway back to \u201cnormal\u201d, New Zealand is making no promises \u2013 and its popula&#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":[41,1066,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34129","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\/34129","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=34129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34141,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34129\/revisions\/34141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}