{"id":37892,"date":"2021-10-11T09:14:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T00:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/11\/new-zealand-covid-update-country-on-knife-edge-as-cases-expected-to-rise-further"},"modified":"2021-10-11T09:14:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T00:14:54","slug":"new-zealand-braces-for-rising-covid-cases-as-expert-warns-of-potential-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37892","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand braces for rising Covid cases as expert warns of potential explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nation on \u2018exponential growth curve\u2019, one expert says, with unexplained as well as total case numbers increasing<\/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 Zealand is bracing for increasing numbers of Covid-19 cases after recording 94 new infections over the weekend, while pandemic modellers say that if the government stays its current course new cases will quickly top 100 a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are on the exponential growth curve,\u201d an epidemiologist and public health professor, Michael Baker, said. \u201cIf you look at the trend, it\u2019s clearly going up in Auckland, and it\u2019s not just the total cases but also the unexplained cases, which suggests transmission in the community is increasing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/11\/new-zealand-covid-update-country-on-knife-edge-as-cases-expected-to-rise-further\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nation on \u2018exponential growth curve\u2019, one expert says, with unexplained as well as total case numbers increasingSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand is bracing for increasing numbers of Covid-19 cases after recording 94 new infections over the w&#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-37892","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\/37892","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=37892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37893,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37892\/revisions\/37893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}