{"id":40033,"date":"2021-12-23T15:02:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T06:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/23\/new-zealand-ends-2021-with-one-of-worlds-best-covid-outcomes-but-it-wasnt-all-good-news"},"modified":"2021-12-23T15:02:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T06:02:47","slug":"new-zealand-ends-2021-with-one-of-worlds-best-covid-outcomes-but-it-wasnt-all-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40033","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand ends 2021 with one of world\u2019s best Covid outcomes \u2013 but it wasn\u2019t all good news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few cases and high vaccination rates, but these successes have come at a cost<\/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>As the Covid-19 pandemic hurtles towards its second anniversary, New Zealand will emerge from 2021 with some of the best health outcomes in the world, despite confronting its toughest few pandemic months.<\/p>\n<p>This year New Zealand experienced its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/03\/electric-vibe-auckland-celebrates-end-of-lockdown-with-brunch-and-traffic-gridlock\">longest lockdown<\/a>, its highest daily case numbers (222 in mid-November), more hospitalisations than in 2020 and a pivot away from the government\u2019s ambitious elimination approach to one of strict virus control. But it can now boast a 90% double vaccination for the eligible population and one of the<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.jhu.edu\/data\/mortality\"> lowest per capita<\/a> death rates, while its cases in the current outbreak are trending downwards.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/23\/new-zealand-ends-2021-with-one-of-worlds-best-covid-outcomes-but-it-wasnt-all-good-news\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few cases and high vaccination rates, but these successes have come at a costCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAs the Covid-19 pandemic hurtles towards its second anniversary, New Zealand will emerge from 2021 with some of the&#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":[41,1066,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40033","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\/40033","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=40033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40034,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40033\/revisions\/40034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}