{"id":41013,"date":"2022-01-24T10:44:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T01:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/24\/how-do-you-feel-about-the-expected-surge-of-omicron-in-new-zealand"},"modified":"2022-01-24T10:44:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T01:44:37","slug":"how-do-you-feel-about-the-expected-surge-of-omicron-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41013","title":{"rendered":"How do you feel about the expected surge of Omicron in New Zealand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We would like to hear from readers in Aotearoa about how they\u2019re dealing with tighter restrictions and preparing for a surge in Covid cases<\/p>\n<p>Last week New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern said the arrival of Omicron was not a matter not of if but when. Days later, <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\">it arrived.<\/a> With the highly contagious variant entering Aotearoa, officials say they expect cases to reach over 1,000 a day in the next two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>More broadly, New Zealand is entering a new stage in the pandemic: needing to reckon for the first time with the prospect of widespread Covid infections across the country, having kept the virus at bay for almost two full years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/24\/how-do-you-feel-about-the-expected-surge-of-omicron-in-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We would like to hear from readers in Aotearoa about how they\u2019re dealing with tighter restrictions and preparing for a surge in Covid casesLast week New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern said the arrival of Omicron was not a matter not of if but wh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"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":[41,1066,346,268,56,2458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-omicron-variant"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41013","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\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41014,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41013\/revisions\/41014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}