{"id":36368,"date":"2021-09-03T11:36:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T02:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/03\/new-zealand-covid-update-new-cases-drop-to-28-but-job-is-not-done-deputy-pm-warns"},"modified":"2021-09-03T11:36:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T02:36:28","slug":"new-zealand-covid-update-new-cases-drop-to-28-but-job-is-not-done-deputy-pm-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36368","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Covid update: new cases drop to 28 but \u2018job is not done\u2019, deputy PM warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Numbers are \u2018encouraging\u2019 but New Zealanders \u2018must continue to be vigilant\u2019, Grant Robertson says<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand has reported 28 new cases of coronavirus in the community, a drop of 21 compared with the previous day in an \u201cencouraging\u201d sign that the country\u2019s lockdown is working, deputy prime minister Grant Robertson says.<\/p>\n<p>One of the new cases was in Wellington while the remainder were in Auckland, which remains under a stricter lockdown compared to the rest of the country. The total number of people infected in the outbreak is now at 764.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/03\/new-zealand-covid-update-new-cases-drop-to-28-but-job-is-not-done-deputy-pm-warns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numbers are \u2018encouraging\u2019 but New Zealanders \u2018must continue to be vigilant\u2019, Grant Robertson saysNew Zealand has reported 28 new cases of coronavirus in the community, a drop of 21 compared with the previous day in an \u201cencouraging\u201d sign that the countr&#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-36368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36368","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=36368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36369,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36368\/revisions\/36369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}