{"id":35088,"date":"2021-08-12T08:52:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T23:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/12\/new-zealand-covid-ardern-quarantine-free-travel-vaccine-reopening"},"modified":"2021-08-12T08:52:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T23:52:24","slug":"new-zealand-to-pursue-covid-elimination-strategy-indefinitely-says-ardern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35088","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand to pursue Covid elimination strategy indefinitely, says Ardern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister lays out cautious reopening strategy that could see quarantine-free travel for vaccinated people early next year<\/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 will continue to pursue its ambitious Covid-19 elimination strategy indefinitely, Jacinda Ardern has said, adding that borders would never be the same as she laid out plans for a cautious, phased, reopening of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister set out the country\u2019s much-awaited reopening strategy on Thursday, and warned that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/newzealand\">New Zealand<\/a> would always need some kind of protection at its border. \u201cJust like after 9\/11, the border will never be the same after Covid \u2026 things can change, but that doesn\u2019t mean we can\u2019t adapt to them in a way that eventually feels normal again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/12\/new-zealand-covid-ardern-quarantine-free-travel-vaccine-reopening\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister lays out cautious reopening strategy that could see quarantine-free travel for vaccinated people early next yearSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand will continue to pursue its ambitious Covid-19 elimination strategy indefinitely,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2378,"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-35088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35088","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\/2378"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35089,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35088\/revisions\/35089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}