{"id":38125,"date":"2021-10-18T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T04:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/18\/new-zealand-covid-update-auckland-to-remain-in-lockdown-even-as-fully-vaccinated-hit-70"},"modified":"2021-10-18T13:00:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T04:00:30","slug":"new-zealand-covid-update-auckland-to-remain-in-lockdown-even-as-fully-vaccinated-hit-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38125","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Covid update: Auckland to remain in lockdown even as fully vaccinated hit 70%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern says restrictions are needed to prevent a spike in cases, as experts warn any relaxation now would be \u2018very dangerous\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Auckland, the city at the centre of New Zealand\u2019s Covid outbreak, will remain in level 3 lockdown for another two weeks, despite rising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/16\/covid-vaxathon-new-zealanders-jabbed-in-one-day\">vaccination levels<\/a>. The decision from prime minister Jacinda Ardern comes as experts remain concerned that an early move out of lockdown could be disastrous, and risk overwhelming the health system.<\/p>\n<p>Auckland is closing in on 90% of its population having had one shot; 89% of the region\u2019s population has now had at least one dose, and 70% are fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/18\/new-zealand-covid-update-auckland-to-remain-in-lockdown-even-as-fully-vaccinated-hit-70\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern says restrictions are needed to prevent a spike in cases, as experts warn any relaxation now would be \u2018very dangerous\u2019Auckland, the city at the centre of New Zealand\u2019s Covid outbreak, will remain in level 3 lockdown for another two weeks&#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-38125","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\/38125","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=38125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38126,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38125\/revisions\/38126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}