{"id":39840,"date":"2021-12-16T11:38:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T02:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/dec\/16\/covid-news-live-south-korea-reimpose-dining-curfews-south-africa-daily-cases-record-omicron"},"modified":"2021-12-17T00:51:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T15:51:46","slug":"covid-news-live-south-korea-to-reimpose-dining-curfews-south-africa-reports-daily-cases-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39840","title":{"rendered":"Covid live: Germany lacks millions of vaccine doses; Denmark breaks case record for fourth day running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German health minister trying to buy back vaccines as country tries to step up booster drive; Denmark facing more restrictions amid surge in infections<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/16\/germany-looks-to-buy-up-spare-covid-vaccines-amid-row-over-shortfall\">Germany looks to buy up spare Covid vaccines amid huge shortfall<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/16\/france-tighten-covid-restrictions-travel-omicron-uk\">France to tighten Covid restrictions on travel from Omicron-hit UK<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2021\/dec\/16\/uk-covid-christmas-omicron-cases-booster-vaccine-coronavirus-boris-johnson-latest-updates\">UK Covid updates \u2013 live<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\/all\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>New Zealand<\/strong> has detected its first case of the Omicron Covid-19 variant in a <strong>Christchurch<\/strong> managed isolation facility.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday afternoon, the director general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said:<\/p>\n<p>This is a person who is in managed isolation in Christchurch. The person arrived in New Zealand on a flight from Germany via Dubai that landed in Auckland&#8230;the people on that flight were transferred to Christchurch on a chartered domestic flight trip with all our usual protocols.<\/p>\n<p>We fully expected we will find a case of Omicron and in fact, we are treating every border related case as if it were Omicron until proven otherwise. We have good protocols in place that are designed to stop the virus getting across the border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/dec\/16\/covid-news-live-south-korea-reimpose-dining-curfews-south-africa-daily-cases-record-omicron\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German health minister trying to buy back vaccines as country tries to step up booster drive; Denmark facing more restrictions amid surge in infectionsGermany looks to buy up spare Covid vaccines amid huge shortfallFrance to tighten Covid restrictions &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2666,"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":[1066,56,532,222,52,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-new-zealand","category-south-africa","category-south-korea","category-uk-news","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","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\/39840","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\/2666"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39857,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39840\/revisions\/39857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}