{"id":37723,"date":"2021-10-06T09:13:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T00:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/06\/new-zealand-gang-leader-given-essential-worker-exemption-to-help-boost-covid-tests"},"modified":"2021-10-06T09:13:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T00:13:43","slug":"new-zealand-mongrel-mob-leader-given-essential-worker-exemption-to-help-boost-covid-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37723","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Mongrel Mob leader given essential worker exemption to help boost Covid tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Head of the Waikato Mongrel Mob chapter Sonny Fatupaito was asked to encourage gang members and their families to get tested<\/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 prime minister Jacinda Ardern has endorsed granting a Mongrel Mob leader special exemption to cross Auckland\u2019s border so he could help minimise Covid-19 spread in hard to reach communities.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the Waikato Mongrel Mob chapter, Sonny Fatupaito, was given essential worker status, which enabled him to enter Auckland last weekend, while the city was under level three lockdown, with a border in place.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/06\/new-zealand-gang-leader-given-essential-worker-exemption-to-help-boost-covid-tests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of the Waikato Mongrel Mob chapter Sonny Fatupaito was asked to encourage gang members and their families to get testedSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand\u2019s prime minister Jacinda Ardern has endorsed granting a Mongrel Mob leader special e&#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":[41,1066,914,268,512,916,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-jacinda-ardern","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","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\/37723","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=37723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37724,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37723\/revisions\/37724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}