{"id":40278,"date":"2022-01-03T11:36:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T02:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/03\/british-dj-escapes-prosecution-after-sparking-new-zealands-first-omicron-scare"},"modified":"2022-01-03T11:36:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T02:36:16","slug":"british-dj-escapes-prosecution-after-sparking-new-zealands-first-omicron-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40278","title":{"rendered":"British DJ escapes prosecution after sparking New Zealand\u2019s first Omicron scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Etheridge, aka DJ Dimension, apologises for \u2018my misunderstandings\u2019 in breaking isolation rules and visiting Auckland venues before testing Covid-positive<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A British DJ who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/29\/new-zealand-reports-first-community-exposure-to-omicron\">triggered New Zealand\u2019s first Omicron scare<\/a> after breaking home isolation rules will not be prosecuted for the time being, authorities say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ministry of Health does not plan to refer this case to the police at this stage,\u201d the ministry said in a statement, adding that it \u201cneeds to balance the deterrence effect from any potential prosecution with enabling an environment that does not discourage future cases from assisting with the public health response to Covid-19\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/03\/british-dj-escapes-prosecution-after-sparking-new-zealands-first-omicron-scare\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Etheridge, aka DJ Dimension, apologises for \u2018my misunderstandings\u2019 in breaking isolation rules and visiting Auckland venues before testing Covid-positiveCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA British DJ who triggered New Z&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1748,"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-40278","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\/40278","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\/1748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40279,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40278\/revisions\/40279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}