{"id":37104,"date":"2021-09-21T08:55:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T23:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/21\/frustration-for-new-zealand-returnees-as-quarantine-spots-snapped-up-in-just-two-hours"},"modified":"2021-09-21T08:55:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T23:55:41","slug":"frustration-for-new-zealand-returnees-as-covid-quarantine-waiting-list-hits-30000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37104","title":{"rendered":"Frustration for New Zealand returnees as Covid quarantine waiting list hits 30,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demand for MIQ spaces is vastly outstripping supply, with spots snapped up in just two hours<\/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>Overseas New Zealanders trying to return home are facing a queue tens of thousands of people long, as the country <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/15\/new-zealand-covid-reopens-miq-quarantine-border-bookings-new-cases-drop\">reopens bookings to cross the border<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s borders have been strictly controlled since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic \u2013 only citizens, permanent residents and a handful of essential workers can enter, and all of them must make a booking to spend two weeks in government-controlled quarantine (MIQ).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/21\/frustration-for-new-zealand-returnees-as-quarantine-spots-snapped-up-in-just-two-hours\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demand for MIQ spaces is vastly outstripping supply, with spots snapped up in just two hoursSee all our coronavirus coverageOverseas New Zealanders trying to return home are facing a queue tens of thousands of people long, as the country reopens bookin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2188,"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-37104","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\/37104","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\/2188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37105,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37104\/revisions\/37105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}