{"id":35443,"date":"2021-08-18T14:36:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T05:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/18\/arderns-covid-lockdown-finds-favour-as-new-zealand-watches-sydneys-delta-disaster"},"modified":"2021-08-18T14:36:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T05:36:37","slug":"arderns-covid-lockdown-finds-favour-as-new-zealand-watches-sydneys-delta-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35443","title":{"rendered":"Ardern\u2019s Covid lockdown finds favour as New Zealand watches Sydney\u2019s Delta disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asked what she would say to people who questioned the need for a level 4 lockdown, the prime minister responded with one word: \u2018Australia\u2019<\/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>To overseas eyes, going into national lockdown over a single case should have been a hard sell, even for an extraordinarily popular prime minister such as Jacinda Ardern.<\/p>\n<p>But a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/aug\/18\/nsw-covid-update-daily-cases-surge-to-633-as-gladys-berejiklian-dismisses-calls-to-tighten-lockdown-rules\">disastrous outbreak of the Delta variant in Sydney<\/a> has helped galvanise New Zealand\u2019s \u201cteam of 5 million\u201d \u2013 and across the country, the government\u2019s tough strategy on Covid-19 has enjoyed widespread popular support.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/18\/arderns-covid-lockdown-finds-favour-as-new-zealand-watches-sydneys-delta-disaster\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asked what she would say to people who questioned the need for a level 4 lockdown, the prime minister responded with one word: \u2018Australia\u2019See all our coronavirus coverageTo overseas eyes, going into national lockdown over a single case should have been&#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":[41,1066,268,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","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\/35443","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=35443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35444,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35443\/revisions\/35444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}