{"id":44080,"date":"2022-05-02T09:46:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T00:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/02\/songs-tears-and-reunions-new-zealand-welcomes-back-tourists-as-border-reopens-after-two-years"},"modified":"2022-05-02T09:46:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T00:46:35","slug":"songs-tears-and-reunions-new-zealand-welcomes-back-tourists-as-border-reopens-after-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44080","title":{"rendered":"Songs, tears and reunions: New Zealand welcomes back tourists as border reopens after two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vaccinated visitors from about 60 visa-waiver countries now able to enter as part of pandemic reopening plan<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>M\u0101ori songs, tearful embraces and a beloved New Zealand chocolate bar awaited international visitors arriving in New Zealand on Monday \u2013 the first foreign guests, other than Australians, to set foot in Aotearoa in more than two years.<\/p>\n<p>Since March 2020, the arrival terminals at New Zealand\u2019s international airports have been desolate as the country swiftly closed the border to prevent the arrival of Covid-19. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/02\/songs-tears-and-reunions-new-zealand-welcomes-back-tourists-as-border-reopens-after-two-years\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaccinated visitors from about 60 visa-waiver countries now able to enter as part of pandemic reopening planCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesM\u0101ori songs, tearful embraces and a beloved New Zealand chocolate bar awaited international visitors arriving in New&#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":[41,1066,914,56,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44080","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\/44080","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=44080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44087,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44080\/revisions\/44087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}