{"id":36223,"date":"2021-08-31T11:37:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T02:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/31\/new-zealand-covid-update-cases-drop-to-49-in-reassuring-indication-lockdown-is-working"},"modified":"2021-08-31T11:37:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T02:37:48","slug":"new-zealand-covid-update-cases-drop-to-49-in-reassuring-indication-lockdown-is-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36223","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Covid update: cases drop to 49 in \u2018reassuring indication\u2019 lockdown is working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director-general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said virus\u2019 reproduction rate remained under one, meaning cases would continue to drop<\/p>\n<p>New cases of Covid-19 have continued to drop in New Zealand, in a promising early indication that the country\u2019s strict lockdown is working and its latest outbreak may be coming under control.<\/p>\n<p>The country announced 49 new cases on Tuesday \u2013 dropping for the second day in a row, down from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/30\/new-zealand-covid-outbreak-at-critical-juncture-as-cases-appear-to-plateau\">53 cases on Monday<\/a> and 83 on Sunday. It is the lowest number of new cases reported in the country in six days.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/31\/new-zealand-covid-update-cases-drop-to-49-in-reassuring-indication-lockdown-is-working\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director-general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said virus\u2019 reproduction rate remained under one, meaning cases would continue to dropNew cases of Covid-19 have continued to drop in New Zealand, in a promising early indication that the country\u2019s strict&#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-36223","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\/36223","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=36223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36224,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36223\/revisions\/36224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}