{"id":37906,"date":"2021-10-11T14:58:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T05:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/11\/maori-party-warns-reopening-new-zealand-amid-covid-outbreak-would-be-modern-genocide"},"modified":"2021-10-11T14:58:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T05:58:04","slug":"maori-party-warns-reopening-new-zealand-amid-covid-outbreak-would-be-modern-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37906","title":{"rendered":"M\u0101ori party warns reopening New Zealand amid Covid outbreak would be \u2018modern genocide\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Party say Maori would be \u2018sacrificial lambs\u2019 if Covid restrictions are lifted before vaccination rates rise<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s government would be committing \u201cmodern genocide\u201d by reopening the country as Covid spreads among under-vaccinated indigenous people, the M\u0101ori party has said.<\/p>\n<p>The comments come as the country is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/11\/new-zealand-covid-update-country-on-knife-edge-as-cases-expected-to-rise-further\">struggling to contain its current Delta outbreak<\/a>, with 95 cases reported over the weekend, and another 35 on Monday. Most current cases and hospitalisations are among M\u0101ori and Pacific New Zealanders, despite the fact those groups make up less than 30% of the total population. New Zealand is also in the process of pivoting away from its longstanding elimination strategy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/11\/maori-party-warns-reopening-new-zealand-amid-covid-outbreak-would-be-modern-genocide\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Party say Maori would be \u2018sacrificial lambs\u2019 if Covid restrictions are lifted before vaccination rates riseNew Zealand\u2019s government would be committing \u201cmodern genocide\u201d by reopening the country as Covid spreads among under-vaccinated indigenous people&#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":[41,1066,914,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-maori","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\/37906","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=37906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37907,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37906\/revisions\/37907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}