{"id":37747,"date":"2021-10-07T08:54:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T23:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/07\/new-zealanders-should-plan-to-encounter-covid-before-christmas-expert-warns"},"modified":"2021-10-07T08:54:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T23:54:45","slug":"new-zealanders-should-plan-to-encounter-covid-before-christmas-expert-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37747","title":{"rendered":"New Zealanders should \u2018plan to encounter\u2019 Covid before Christmas, expert warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Epidemiologist Michael Baker also recommended people get their second vaccine dose after three weeks rather than six<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New Zealanders who have managed to escape coming into contact with Covid-19 should ready themselves to encounter it by Christmas, a leading epidemiologist has warned, as the country ramps up its vaccine rollout.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, announced on Monday that the ambitious elimination strategy would soon be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/04\/new-zealand-covid-strategy-in-transition-ardern-says-as-auckland-awaits-lockdown-decision\">phased out<\/a> as vaccination rates increase. The move has caused some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/05\/anger-and-grief-new-zealanders-fearful-as-covid-elimination-strategy-ends\">alarm among experts<\/a>, who warn that a change in strategy and a loosening of restrictions while the vaccination rates are still low could disproportionately and negatively affect communities who are vulnerable to the virus, including M\u0101ori and Pasifika.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/07\/new-zealanders-should-plan-to-encounter-covid-before-christmas-expert-warns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epidemiologist Michael Baker also recommended people get their second vaccine dose after three weeks rather than sixSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealanders who have managed to escape coming into contact with Covid-19 should ready themselves to 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":[41,1066,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37747","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\/37747","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=37747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37767,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37747\/revisions\/37767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}