{"id":36136,"date":"2021-08-30T11:24:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T02:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/30\/new-zealand-covid-outbreak-at-critical-juncture-as-cases-appear-to-plateau"},"modified":"2021-08-30T14:00:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T05:00:37","slug":"new-zealand-covid-update-outbreak-at-critical-juncture-as-cases-drop-to-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36136","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Covid update: Auckland lockdown extended as cases drop to 53"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say this week is \u2018crunch\u2019 time as country waits to see whether numbers will continue to fall<\/p>\n<p>Auckland will remain in full lockdown for another two weeks despite a drop in community cases of Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand reported 53 new cases in the community on Monday, bringing the total number in its outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant to 562. It is a drop of 30 cases from Sunday, which was the biggest single day for the outbreak, with 83 cases. There were 82 cases on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/30\/new-zealand-covid-outbreak-at-critical-juncture-as-cases-appear-to-plateau\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say this week is \u2018crunch\u2019 time as country waits to see whether numbers will continue to fallAuckland will remain in full lockdown for another two weeks despite a drop in community cases of Covid-19.New Zealand reported 53 new cases in the commu&#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-36136","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\/36136","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=36136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36155,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36136\/revisions\/36155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}