{"id":40863,"date":"2022-01-20T14:48:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T05:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/20\/as-omicron-rages-around-the-world-ardern-deploys-an-old-tactic-delay"},"modified":"2022-01-20T14:48:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T05:48:31","slug":"as-omicron-rages-around-the-world-ardern-deploys-an-old-tactic-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40863","title":{"rendered":"As Omicron rages around the world, Ardern deploys an old tactic &#8211; delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern says Omicron is \u2018knocking at our door\u2019 as the prime minister faces criticism over gaps in preparations for a Covid wave <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/jan\/20\/covid-news-live-who-recommends-lifting-international-travel-bans-and-abolishing-proof-of-vaccination-requirements\">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>In her first press conference of the year, held outside in the central North Island sun, prime minister Jacinda Ardern was almost drowned out by a wave of cicada calls.<\/p>\n<p>The clamour is synonymous with New Zealand summertime, a reminder that the country had managed to snatch a long, hot, largely unrestricted holiday season from the mouth of a late-2021 Delta outbreak.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/20\/as-omicron-rages-around-the-world-ardern-deploys-an-old-tactic-delay\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern says Omicron is \u2018knocking at our door\u2019 as the prime minister faces criticism over gaps in preparations for a Covid wave Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIn her first press conference of the year, held outside i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"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":[41,1066,268,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40863","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\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40864,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40863\/revisions\/40864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}