{"id":43298,"date":"2022-04-06T11:10:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T02:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/06\/dr-ashley-bloomfield-who-led-new-zealands-pandemic-response-resigns"},"modified":"2022-04-06T11:10:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T02:10:31","slug":"dr-ashley-bloomfield-who-led-new-zealands-pandemic-response-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43298","title":{"rendered":"Dr Ashley Bloomfield, who led New Zealand\u2019s pandemic response, resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Softly-spoken public servant who became a household name says the role had been challenging and complex<\/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>The understated doctor who became an unexpected star of New Zealand\u2019s pandemic has resigned after two years leading the country\u2019s Covid response.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Ashley Bloomfield, New Zealand\u2019s director-general of health announced his resignation on Wednesday, and said that it had been \u201ca huge privilege\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/06\/dr-ashley-bloomfield-who-led-new-zealands-pandemic-response-resigns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Softly-spoken public servant who became a household name says the role had been challenging and complexSee all our coronavirus coverageThe understated doctor who became an unexpected star of New Zealand\u2019s pandemic has resigned after two years leading t&#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":[41,1066,914,56,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-new-zealand","category-science","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\/43298","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=43298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43299,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43298\/revisions\/43299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}