{"id":37552,"date":"2021-10-02T04:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T19:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/01\/clearly-not-working-how-new-zealands-consensus-on-striving-for-covid-zero-is-finally-cracking"},"modified":"2021-10-02T04:00:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T19:00:38","slug":"clearly-not-working-how-new-zealands-consensus-on-striving-for-covid-zero-is-finally-cracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37552","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Clearly not working\u2019: How New Zealand\u2019s consensus on striving for Covid zero is finally cracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Auckland grapples with Delta outbreak, opposition leaders dare to break with Jacinda Ardern on pandemic plan<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings have changed,\u201d Judith Collins declares, sitting in her Beehive government office. New Zealand\u2019s National party leader is fresh off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/29\/covid-new-zealand-reports-jump-in-cases-as-opposition-calls-for-opening-up\">launching her alternative pandemic response plan<\/a>, marking the first time the main opposition has significantly diverged from prime minister Jacinda Ardern\u2019s largely popular elimination strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The arrival of the Delta variant in New Zealand two months ago, causing an outbreak that the government is struggling to stamp out, has shown that elimination is \u201cclearly not working,\u201d Collins says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/01\/clearly-not-working-how-new-zealands-consensus-on-striving-for-covid-zero-is-finally-cracking\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Auckland grapples with Delta outbreak, opposition leaders dare to break with Jacinda Ardern on pandemic plan\u201cThings have changed,\u201d Judith Collins declares, sitting in her Beehive government office. New Zealand\u2019s National party leader is fresh off la&#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-37552","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\/37552","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=37552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37553,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37552\/revisions\/37553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}