{"id":35750,"date":"2021-08-23T09:50:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T00:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/23\/big-questions-new-zealand-covid-minister-raises-doubts-about-elimination-strategy"},"modified":"2021-08-23T09:50:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T00:50:31","slug":"big-questions-new-zealand-covid-minister-raises-doubts-about-elimination-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35750","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Big questions\u2019: New Zealand Covid minister raises doubts about elimination strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Hipkins said the Delta variant was \u2018like nothing we\u2019ve dealt with so far\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The arrival of the Delta strain in New Zealand has prompted the country\u2019s Covid-19 response minister to question the efficacy of its ambitious elimination strategy \u2013 an approach that has been the backbone of the country\u2019s pandemic response.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Hipkins told current affairs programme Q+A on Sunday that Delta raised \u201cbig questions about the long-term future of our plans\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/23\/big-questions-new-zealand-covid-minister-raises-doubts-about-elimination-strategy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Hipkins said the Delta variant was \u2018like nothing we\u2019ve dealt with so far\u2019The arrival of the Delta strain in New Zealand has prompted the country\u2019s Covid-19 response minister to question the efficacy of its ambitious elimination strategy \u2013 an appr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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-35750","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\/35750","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35751,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35750\/revisions\/35751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}