{"id":37611,"date":"2021-10-04T12:59:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T03:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/04\/new-zealand-covid-strategy-in-transition-ardern-says-as-auckland-awaits-lockdown-decision"},"modified":"2021-10-04T13:03:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T04:03:08","slug":"new-zealand-covid-elimination-strategy-to-be-phased-out-ardern-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37611","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Covid elimination strategy to be phased out, Ardern says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister says the use of vaccines means country now has \u2018more options\u2019 on how to control virus <\/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 elimination strategy will be phased out in favour of a new model that takes into account vaccination rates, prime minister Jacinda Ardern has said, as she laid out a three-stage \u201croad-map\u201d to transition Auckland out of its lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElimination was important because we didn\u2019t have vaccines,\u201d Ardern said. \u201cNow we do, so we can begin to change the way we do things. We have more options, and there\u2019s good cause for us to feel optimistic about the future, but we cannot rush.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/04\/new-zealand-covid-strategy-in-transition-ardern-says-as-auckland-awaits-lockdown-decision\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister says the use of vaccines means country now has \u2018more options\u2019 on how to control virus See all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand\u2019s elimination strategy will be phased out in favour of a new model that takes into account vaccination rate&#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-37611","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\/37611","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=37611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37637,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37611\/revisions\/37637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}