{"id":36652,"date":"2021-09-09T13:57:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T04:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/09\/jacinda-ardern-advises-against-sex-covid-patients-hospital-visits-new-zealand"},"modified":"2021-09-09T13:57:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T04:57:29","slug":"high-risk-activity-ardern-advises-hospital-visitors-against-sex-with-patients-during-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36652","title":{"rendered":"\u2018High-risk activity\u2019: Ardern advises hospital visitors against sex with patients during Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand prime minister\u2019s face shows full range of emotions after being asked about Auckland patient\u2019s liaison that health chief called a \u2018high-risk activity\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s prime minister Jacinda Ardern may have kept her cool through a global pandemic, but a question about a patient and a visitor having sex at an Auckland hospital had the typically unflappable leader struggling to contain her expressions.<\/p>\n<p>Ardern and the director general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield were giving their daily Covid-19 press conference, when a reporter asked them whether an allegation involving a patient and visitor who had \u201csexual relations\u201d at Auckland hospital was considered a \u201chigh-risk activity, in the current climate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/09\/jacinda-ardern-advises-against-sex-covid-patients-hospital-visits-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand prime minister\u2019s face shows full range of emotions after being asked about Auckland patient\u2019s liaison that health chief called a \u2018high-risk activity\u2019See all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand\u2019s prime minister Jacinda Ardern may have kept h&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-new-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36652","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=36652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36653,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36652\/revisions\/36653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}