{"id":36792,"date":"2021-09-13T13:58:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T04:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/13\/new-zealand-battles-mystery-covid-cases-as-lockdown-rule-breakers-cause-outrage"},"modified":"2021-09-13T13:58:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T04:58:25","slug":"auckland-to-remain-in-strict-lockdown-as-new-zealand-battles-mystery-covid-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36792","title":{"rendered":"Auckland to remain in strict lockdown as New Zealand battles mystery Covid cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Covid cases are on a downward trajectory but experts are worried by a small number that can\u2019t be linked to others<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s largest city, Auckland, will remain under a strict lockdown for at least another week, prime minister Jacinda Ardern has announced, as the country battles to stamp out an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant.<\/p>\n<p>The country reported 54 new cases of Covid-19 over the weekend, and 33 new cases on Monday \u2013 a slight rise from last week\u2019s average. There have now been a total of 955 cases in the outbreak. While its overall trajectory is still moving well down from its peak, officials are concerned about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/10\/new-zealand-covid-update-mystery-case-auckland-outbreak\">a number of mystery cases<\/a> that investigators and contact tracers have not yet been able to link with others.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/13\/new-zealand-battles-mystery-covid-cases-as-lockdown-rule-breakers-cause-outrage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid cases are on a downward trajectory but experts are worried by a small number that can\u2019t be linked to othersSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand\u2019s largest city, Auckland, will remain under a strict lockdown for at least another week, prime &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2565,"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-36792","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\/36792","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\/2565"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36793,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36792\/revisions\/36793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}