{"id":41313,"date":"2022-02-03T07:49:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T22:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/03\/jacinda-ardern-announces-new-zealand-border-will-open-in-stages-from-end-of-february"},"modified":"2022-02-03T07:49:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T22:49:22","slug":"new-zealand-border-will-open-in-stages-from-end-of-february-jacinda-ardern-announces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41313","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand border will open in stages from end of February, Jacinda Ardern announces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fully vaccinated New Zealanders and other eligible travellers from Australia will be the first people able to enter the country<\/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>New Zealand has announced it will reopen its border to visitors in stages, starting at the end of February, after its earlier plans to do so were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/21\/new-zealand-delays-border-reopening-in-bid-to-strengthen-defences-against-omicron\">derailed by Omicron<\/a>. It will be the first time the country has opened up since prime minister Jacinda Ardern announced its snap closure in the first month of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/21\/new-zealanders-told-to-cancel-non-essential-travel-to-limit-covid-19\">borders have been closed,<\/a> apart from a short-lived travel bubble with Australia, for nearly two years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Omicron\u2019s arrival, we pushed that change in border settings out \u2013 to give ourselves the chance to roll out boosters \u2013 a chance most other countries never had,\u201d Ardern said in a speech on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/03\/jacinda-ardern-announces-new-zealand-border-will-open-in-stages-from-end-of-february\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fully vaccinated New Zealanders and other eligible travellers from Australia will be the first people able to enter the countryCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand has announced it will reopen its border to visitors i&#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":[41,1066,346,914,56,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-new-zealand","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41313","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=41313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41314,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41313\/revisions\/41314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}