{"id":46043,"date":"2022-07-05T14:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/05\/new-zealand-faces-new-covid-wave-as-experts-say-moving-on-from-pandemic-is-wishful-thinking"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:00:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T05:00:40","slug":"new-zealand-faces-new-covid-wave-as-experts-say-moving-on-from-pandemic-is-wishful-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46043","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand faces new Covid wave as experts say moving on from pandemic is \u2018wishful thinking\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Signs that Omicron surge is becoming \u2018more intense\u2019, with cases rising steadily and more people in hospital than at any time since April<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand is on the brink of another Omicron wave, experts warn, with average cases rising as immunity wanes, more infectious variants arrive, and winter sets in.<\/p>\n<p>Public health experts, however, are concerned that the public and government are primarily focused on \u201cmoving on\u201d from the virus, after the country <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/23\/a-new-beginning-new-zealand-to-drop-covid-vaccine-passes-and-mandates\">transitioned out of its Covid elimination strategy<\/a> \u2013 and are not taking the necessary steps to try to reduce transmission.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/05\/new-zealand-faces-new-covid-wave-as-experts-say-moving-on-from-pandemic-is-wishful-thinking\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Signs that Omicron surge is becoming \u2018more intense\u2019, with cases rising steadily and more people in hospital than at any time since AprilNew Zealand is on the brink of another Omicron wave, experts warn, with average cases rising as immunity wanes, more&#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":[41,1066,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46043","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=46043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46044,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46043\/revisions\/46044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}