{"id":37664,"date":"2021-10-05T10:59:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T01:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/05\/anger-and-grief-new-zealanders-fearful-as-covid-elimination-strategy-ends"},"modified":"2021-10-05T10:59:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T01:59:18","slug":"anger-and-grief-new-zealanders-fearful-as-covid-elimination-strategy-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37664","title":{"rendered":"Anger and grief: New Zealanders fearful as Covid elimination strategy ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns about the toll a suppression approach may take have dampened excitement about loosened restrictions<\/p>\n<p>New Zealanders are grieving for the end of the country\u2019s Covid elimination strategy and anxious about what the future holds, a day after prime minister Jacinda Ardern announced the country would switch to a suppression approach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s kind of a grieving for what we are losing,\u201d microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles, one of the pandemic response\u2019s most prominent science communicators, said. \u201cWe are very clearly losing alert level 1, and the freedoms and privileges that come with [it],\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/05\/anger-and-grief-new-zealanders-fearful-as-covid-elimination-strategy-ends\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns about the toll a suppression approach may take have dampened excitement about loosened restrictionsNew Zealanders are grieving for the end of the country\u2019s Covid elimination strategy and anxious about what the future holds, a day after prime m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"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-37664","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\/37664","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\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37666,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37664\/revisions\/37666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}