{"id":36727,"date":"2021-09-11T07:43:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T22:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/11\/against-all-odds-how-new-zealand-is-bending-the-delta-curve"},"modified":"2021-09-11T07:43:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T22:43:09","slug":"against-all-odds-how-new-zealand-is-bending-the-delta-curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36727","title":{"rendered":"Against all odds: how New Zealand is bending the Delta curve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s goal of eliminating Covid transmission looks within reach \u2013 but health experts\u2019 optimism is cautious<\/p>\n<p> Less than a month ago, New Zealanders disappeared into their homes, retracting from the public domain like spilled water into a dry sponge. The motorways and city streets stood mostly empty, shops closed, schools and playgrounds were deserted. A single case of the highly contagious Delta variant had been detected and the government called a snap level-4 lockdown, introducing some of the strictest restrictions in the world.<\/p>\n<p>It was a new threat for a country whose Covid-zero pandemic response had been ranked one of the best globally. New Zealand had never faced a Delta outbreak before, and no one knew if its past strategies would prove up to the task.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/11\/against-all-odds-how-new-zealand-is-bending-the-delta-curve\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s goal of eliminating Covid transmission looks within reach \u2013 but health experts\u2019 optimism is cautious Less than a month ago, New Zealanders disappeared into their homes, retracting from the public domain like spilled water into a dry spong&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36727","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=36727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36728,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36727\/revisions\/36728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}