{"id":44340,"date":"2022-05-10T12:06:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T03:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/10\/new-zealand-once-covid-free-tops-1-million-cases-since-pandemic-began"},"modified":"2022-05-10T12:06:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T03:06:01","slug":"new-zealand-once-covid-free-tops-1-million-cases-since-pandemic-began","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44340","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand, once Covid-free, tops 1 million cases since pandemic began"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Figure means 20% of population has been infected with Covid but modellers say true number is likely three times higher<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">Read all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New Zealand has recorded more than 1m cases of Covid-19, after spending the first 18 months of the pandemic largely free of the virus. <\/p>\n<p>The milestone reflects a stark change in New Zealand\u2019s pandemic experience, with more than 986,000 of those cases hitting in the months since the start of 2022. The country has had a huge spike in cases since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/29\/new-zealand-reports-first-community-exposure-to-omicron\">Omicron breached the borders<\/a> in December 2021, and the government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/23\/a-new-beginning-new-zealand-to-drop-covid-vaccine-passes-and-mandates\">loosened most restrictions in March<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/10\/new-zealand-once-covid-free-tops-1-million-cases-since-pandemic-began\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figure means 20% of population has been infected with Covid but modellers say true number is likely three times higherRead all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand has recorded more than 1m cases of Covid-19, after spending the first 18 months of the pa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2163,"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-44340","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\/44340","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\/2163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44341,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44340\/revisions\/44341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}