{"id":37301,"date":"2021-09-25T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T20:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/25\/people-are-tired-chris-hipkins-the-new-zealand-minister-battling-to-eliminate-covid"},"modified":"2021-09-25T05:00:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T20:00:25","slug":"people-are-tired-chris-hipkins-the-new-zealand-minister-battling-to-eliminate-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37301","title":{"rendered":"\u2018People are tired\u2019: Chris Hipkins, the New Zealand minister battling to eliminate Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the country\u2019s much-lauded pandemic policy reaches a critical moment, Hipkins insists it remains committed to elimination<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/24\/jacinda-ardern-looks-to-life-beyond-lockdowns-with-90-vaccination-target\">Ardern looks to life beyond lockdowns with 90% vaccination target<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s New Zealand\u2019s 1pm Covid press conference, and Chris Hipkins is eyeballing a room of journalists. He stands, sanitising his hands, and takes a moment to look around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll start with some good news,\u201d he begins.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/25\/people-are-tired-chris-hipkins-the-new-zealand-minister-battling-to-eliminate-covid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the country\u2019s much-lauded pandemic policy reaches a critical moment, Hipkins insists it remains committed to eliminationArdern looks to life beyond lockdowns with 90% vaccination target It\u2019s New Zealand\u2019s 1pm Covid press conference, and Chris Hipkin&#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":[41,1066,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","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\/37301","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=37301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37302,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37301\/revisions\/37302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}