{"id":35907,"date":"2021-08-25T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/25\/new-zealand-wont-throw-in-towel-on-covid-zero-strategy-despite-rising-infections"},"modified":"2021-08-25T13:11:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T04:11:00","slug":"new-zealand-wont-throw-in-towel-on-covid-zero-strategy-despite-rising-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35907","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand won\u2019t \u2018throw in towel\u2019 on Covid-zero strategy despite rising infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Covid response minister says it would be a waste to stop aiming for elimination after plan was questioned by foreign media<\/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\u2019s Covid response minister says the country will not \u201cthrow in the towel\u201d with its elimination strategy, as cases continue to rise.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand announced 63 new cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday, bringing the total to 210 cases. It is the largest single-day jump since the outbreak began last week, and 12 people are hospitalised with the virus.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/25\/new-zealand-wont-throw-in-towel-on-covid-zero-strategy-despite-rising-infections\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid response minister says it would be a waste to stop aiming for elimination after plan was questioned by foreign mediaSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand\u2019s Covid response minister says the country will not \u201cthrow in the towel\u201d with its elim&#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":[41,1066,914,56,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-new-zealand","category-science"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35907","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=35907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35908,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35907\/revisions\/35908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}