{"id":39137,"date":"2021-11-22T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/22\/new-zealand-set-to-ease-covid-restrictions-and-end-lockdowns-from-december"},"modified":"2021-11-22T15:00:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T06:00:27","slug":"new-zealand-set-to-ease-covid-restrictions-and-end-lockdowns-from-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39137","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand set to ease Covid restrictions and end lockdowns from December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New \u2018traffic light\u2019 system will see vaccinated people granted significantly greater freedoms than those who are unvaccinated<\/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 will adopt a new system of living with coronavirus from 3 December, ending tough coronavirus measures and allowing businesses to operate in its biggest city, prime minister Jacinda Ardern has said.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand has been unable to beat an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant of Covid-19 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/13\/new-zealand-battles-mystery-covid-cases-as-lockdown-rule-breakers-cause-outrage\">centred in Auckland<\/a>, forcing Ardern to abandon her acclaimed elimination strategy and switch to a system of treating the virus as endemic. The country\u2019s biggest city, Auckland, has been in lockdown for more than 90 days.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/22\/new-zealand-set-to-ease-covid-restrictions-and-end-lockdowns-from-december\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New \u2018traffic light\u2019 system will see vaccinated people granted significantly greater freedoms than those who are unvaccinatedSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand will adopt a new system of living with coronavirus from 3 December, ending tough cor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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-39137","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\/39137","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39138,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39137\/revisions\/39138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}