{"id":39948,"date":"2021-12-20T10:37:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T01:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/20\/death-of-child-with-covid-19-prompts-calls-for-maori-to-be-prioritised-in-nz-vaccine-rollout"},"modified":"2021-12-20T10:37:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T01:37:29","slug":"death-of-child-with-covid-19-prompts-calls-for-maori-to-be-prioritised-in-nz-vaccine-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39948","title":{"rendered":"Death of child with Covid-19 prompts calls for M\u0101ori to be prioritised in NZ vaccine rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M\u0101ori boy who died last week was youngest New Zealander to die with virus and the first child<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first death of a child with Covid-19 in New Zealand has prompted calls for M\u0101ori children to be prioritised in the next stage of the vaccine rollout, as the country grapples with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/06\/perfect-storm-how-covid-is-compounding-new-zealands-existing-social-crises\">racial inequalities<\/a> compounded by the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>A M\u0101ori boy, under the age of 10 and who had tested positive for the virus, died last week, becoming the youngest New Zealander to die with Covid, the Ministry of Health confirmed. It is unclear whether Covid-19 was the cause of the boy\u2019s death, as New Zealand records all deaths of people considered active Covid cases in its official count. It is the country\u2019s 49th death of a Covid-positive person since the start of the pandemic. M\u0101ori make up an estimated 17.1% of the population but they have accounted for 32% of all Covid-19 related deaths.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/20\/death-of-child-with-covid-19-prompts-calls-for-maori-to-be-prioritised-in-nz-vaccine-rollout\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M\u0101ori boy who died last week was youngest New Zealander to die with virus and the first childCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe first death of a child with Covid-19 in New Zealand has prompted calls for M\u0101ori children to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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":[41,1066,914,897,56,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-science","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\/39948","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39949,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39948\/revisions\/39949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}