{"id":40975,"date":"2022-01-23T09:44:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T00:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/23\/red-alert-new-zealand-prepares-for-thousands-of-omicron-cases-a-day-with-community-spread"},"modified":"2022-01-23T16:02:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T07:02:27","slug":"red-alert-pm-cancels-wedding-as-new-zealand-prepares-for-thousands-of-omicron-cases-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40975","title":{"rendered":"Jacinda Ardern cancels wedding as New Zealand prepares for Omicron surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister says variant is now circulating in the community but \u2018we\u2019ll do everything that we can to slow the spread\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Omicron has breached New Zealand\u2019s borders and started spreading in the community, Jacinda Ardern has said, meaning the entire country will be placed on the highest level of restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak has also forced the prime minister to cancel her wedding to Clarke Gayford, which was due to take place in the coming weeks at Gisborne on the North Island\u2019s eastern coast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/23\/red-alert-new-zealand-prepares-for-thousands-of-omicron-cases-a-day-with-community-spread\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister says variant is now circulating in the community but \u2018we\u2019ll do everything that we can to slow the spread\u2019Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingOmicron has breached New Zealand\u2019s borders and started spreading in the communi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2163,"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":[41,1066,268,56,2458,565],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-omicron-variant","category-vaccines-and-immunisation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40975","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\/2163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40975"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41006,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40975\/revisions\/41006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}