{"id":36950,"date":"2021-09-17T11:48:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T02:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/17\/new-zealand-extends-australia-travel-bubble-pause-as-covid-cases-drop-to-11"},"modified":"2021-09-17T11:48:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T02:48:29","slug":"new-zealand-extends-australia-travel-bubble-pause-as-covid-cases-drop-to-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36950","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand extends Australia travel bubble pause as Covid cases drop to 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government says it\u2019s \u2018working hard\u2019 to ease restrictions next week as country\u2019s case numbers trend steadily down<\/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 will delay the reopening of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/23\/new-zealand-shuts-australia-travel-bubble-as-sydneys-covid-outbreak-worsens\">trans-Tasman travel bubble<\/a>, as case numbers in Australia rise and numbers in New Zealand continue to drop.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy prime minister Grant Robertson confirmed on Friday that while the pause in quarantine-free travel had been due to expire next week, it would now be extended for at least a further 8 weeks. New South Wales announced 1,284 new cases and 12 deaths, and Victoria announced 510 new cases. New Zealand reported 11 new cases in the country, all based in Auckland.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/17\/new-zealand-extends-australia-travel-bubble-pause-as-covid-cases-drop-to-11\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government says it\u2019s \u2018working hard\u2019 to ease restrictions next week as country\u2019s case numbers trend steadily downSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand will delay the reopening of its trans-Tasman travel bubble, as case numbers in Australia rise an&#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-36950","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\/36950","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=36950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36951,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36950\/revisions\/36951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}