{"id":41862,"date":"2022-02-21T13:56:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T04:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/21\/new-zealand-will-lift-covid-restrictions-only-when-well-beyond-peak-jacinda-ardern-says"},"modified":"2022-02-21T13:56:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T04:56:31","slug":"new-zealand-will-lift-covid-restrictions-only-when-well-beyond-peak-jacinda-ardern-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41862","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand will lift Covid restrictions only when \u2018well beyond\u2019 peak, Jacinda Ardern says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister says now is not the time to \u2018remove our armour just as the battle begins\u2019 despite pressure from protesters<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has said Covid-19 restrictions, including mandates and vaccine passes, will begin to lift once the country gets \u201cwell beyond\u201d the Omicron outbreak\u2019s peak.<\/p>\n<p>At a post-cabinet press conference on Monday, Ardern said case numbers were likely to peak in mid-to-late March, or three to six weeks away. Case numbers were expected to double every three to four days.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/21\/new-zealand-will-lift-covid-restrictions-only-when-well-beyond-peak-jacinda-ardern-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister says now is not the time to \u2018remove our armour just as the battle begins\u2019 despite pressure from protestersSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has said Covid-19 restrictions, including mandates and va&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2340,"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-41862","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\/41862","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\/2340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41863,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41862\/revisions\/41863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}