{"id":35607,"date":"2021-08-21T05:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T20:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/21\/no-second-chances-can-new-zealand-beat-delta"},"modified":"2021-08-21T05:00:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T20:00:45","slug":"no-second-chances-can-new-zealand-beat-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35607","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No second chances\u2019: Can New Zealand beat Delta?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern has led a global Covid success story, but other countries have come unstuck when facing the Delta variant<\/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>As epidemiologist Michael Baker scrolled through a growing list of New Zealand\u2019s Covid-exposed locations, \u201cmy heart just sank,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Bars, nightclubs, churches, schools, restaurants and hospitals \u2013 the bullet points were an infectious disease expert\u2019s nightmare. \u201cVirtually every high risk, indoor environment was on that list.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/21\/no-second-chances-can-new-zealand-beat-delta\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern has led a global Covid success story, but other countries have come unstuck when facing the Delta variantSee all our coronavirus coverageAs epidemiologist Michael Baker scrolled through a growing list of New Zealand\u2019s Covid-exposed locat&#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-35607","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\/35607","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=35607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35608,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35607\/revisions\/35608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}