{"id":36342,"date":"2021-09-03T10:25:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T01:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/03\/new-zealand-covid-positive-escapee-had-tried-to-flee-hotel-quarantine-three-times-officials-say"},"modified":"2021-09-03T10:25:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T01:25:32","slug":"new-zealand-covid-positive-escapee-had-tried-to-flee-hotel-quarantine-three-times-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36342","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand: Covid-positive escapee had tried to flee hotel quarantine three times, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man\u2019s mother said she had called police on her son when he left home in Auckland after receiving his positive test result<\/p>\n<p>A man who tested positive for Covid-19 before absconding from a quarantine facility in Auckland on Thursday had attempted to escape three times before he was successful, health officials report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/02\/new-zealand-police-surround-address-after-covid-positive-man-escapes-quarantine\">New Zealand police arrested the man<\/a> at a south Auckland address on Thursday afternoon, roughly 10km from the Novotel<strong> <\/strong>Ibis hotel in Ellerslie, where he was quarantining. He had been in the community for at least 12 hours at the time of his arrest.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/03\/new-zealand-covid-positive-escapee-had-tried-to-flee-hotel-quarantine-three-times-officials-say\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man\u2019s mother said she had called police on her son when he left home in Auckland after receiving his positive test resultA man who tested positive for Covid-19 before absconding from a quarantine facility in Auckland on Thursday had attempted to escape&#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-36342","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\/36342","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=36342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36343,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36342\/revisions\/36343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}