{"id":37452,"date":"2021-09-29T10:19:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T01:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/29\/covid-new-zealand-reports-jump-in-cases-as-opposition-calls-for-opening-up"},"modified":"2021-09-29T10:19:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T01:19:12","slug":"covid-new-zealand-reports-jump-in-cases-as-opposition-calls-for-opening-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37452","title":{"rendered":"Covid: New Zealand reports jump in cases as opposition calls for opening up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>45 new positives in a day as National party lays out coronavirus plan for \u2018vigorous suppression\u2019 instead of elimination<\/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 daily Covid cases have jumped sharply to 45 \u2013 more than five times the previous day\u2019s number. The rise comes after several days of about 12 cases a day, and around a week after the Auckland region lifted its strictest lockdown restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a big number. It\u2019s a sobering number. I don\u2019t think anybody who\u2019s involved in this process would be celebrating a number like the one we\u2019re seeing today,\u201d said the Covid-19 response minister, Chris Hipkins.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/29\/covid-new-zealand-reports-jump-in-cases-as-opposition-calls-for-opening-up\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>45 new positives in a day as National party lays out coronavirus plan for \u2018vigorous suppression\u2019 instead of eliminationSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand\u2019s daily Covid cases have jumped sharply to 45 \u2013 more than five times the previous day\u2019s n&#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-37452","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\/37452","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=37452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37453,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37452\/revisions\/37453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}