{"id":36501,"date":"2021-09-06T12:25:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T03:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/06\/new-zealand-reports-20-new-coronavirus-cases-for-third-day-in-a-row"},"modified":"2021-09-06T14:11:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T05:11:11","slug":"new-zealand-reports-20-new-coronavirus-cases-for-third-day-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36501","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand eases restrictions outside Auckland as Covid cases stabilise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say Covid-19 infection total is encouraging sign \u2018we are heading in the right direction\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s regions outside of Auckland will move down lockdown settings to level 2, from midnight Tuesday, prime minister Jacinda Ardern has announced, as a slowdown in daily case numbers indicated the coronavirus outbreak may have peaked.<\/p>\n<p>On 17 August the country was put into a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/17\/new-zealand-to-go-into-national-lockdown-over-one-covid-case\"> snap nation-wide lockdown<\/a> following the discovery of one case of the Delta variant in the community. The entire country was in alert level 4 \u2013 the highest level \u2013 for two weeks, with regions outside Auckland moving down a level last week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/06\/new-zealand-reports-20-new-coronavirus-cases-for-third-day-in-a-row\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say Covid-19 infection total is encouraging sign \u2018we are heading in the right direction\u2019See all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand\u2019s regions outside of Auckland will move down lockdown settings to level 2, from midnight Tuesday, prime minister&#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-36501","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\/36501","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=36501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36540,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36501\/revisions\/36540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}