{"id":36295,"date":"2021-09-02T11:53:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T02:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/02\/new-zealand-covid-update-49-new-cases-recorded-in-encouraging-downward-trend"},"modified":"2021-09-02T11:53:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T02:53:34","slug":"new-zealand-covid-update-49-new-cases-recorded-in-encouraging-downward-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36295","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Covid update: 49 new cases recorded in \u2018encouraging\u2019 downward trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PM Jacinda Ardern says country is starting to see \u2018positive trends\u2019 in the numbers, with fewer cases infectious in the community<\/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 has reported 49 new cases of Covid-19 in the community \u2013 continuing an overall downward trend in cases.<\/p>\n<p>That downward slope is an early but promising indication that the country\u2019s strict lockdown measures are working \u2013 not only arresting an exponential growth in cases, but also gradually pushing case numbers down and toward elimination.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/02\/new-zealand-covid-update-49-new-cases-recorded-in-encouraging-downward-trend\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM Jacinda Ardern says country is starting to see \u2018positive trends\u2019 in the numbers, with fewer cases infectious in the communitySee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand has reported 49 new cases of Covid-19 in the community \u2013 continuing an overall d&#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-36295","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\/36295","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=36295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36296,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36295\/revisions\/36296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}