{"id":46470,"date":"2022-07-16T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T20:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/16\/new-zealand-seeks-to-repeat-world-beating-covid-response-in-face-of-surging-cases"},"modified":"2022-07-16T05:00:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T20:00:49","slug":"new-zealand-seeks-to-repeat-world-beating-covid-response-in-face-of-surging-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46470","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand seeks to repeat world-beating Covid response in face of surging cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid warnings of a healthcare workforce collapse, the population is being urged to recommit to pandemic measures many thought were behind them<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong>In supermarkets and coffee queues, New Zealand\u2019s chins are reappearing. Masks \u2013 previously a constant &#8211; have become patchy. Once-ubiquitous bottles of hand sanitiser begun to disappear. In some venues, laminated contact-tracing codes are peeling off the walls.<\/p>\n<p>The country, which once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/17\/new-zealand-to-go-into-national-lockdown-over-one-covid-case\">embraced snap lockdowns<\/a> in the face of a single Covid case, has in recent months progressively dropped restrictions and carried on as thousands of people have been infected. Now, looking down the barrel of a rising wave of infections and a growing death toll, New Zealand faces the question of whether it can reclaim its reputation for a world-beating Covid response.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/16\/new-zealand-seeks-to-repeat-world-beating-covid-response-in-face-of-surging-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid warnings of a healthcare workforce collapse, the population is being urged to recommit to pandemic measures many thought were behind them In supermarkets and coffee queues, New Zealand\u2019s chins are reappearing. Masks \u2013 previously a constant &#8211; have &#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":[41,1066,268,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-jacinda-ardern","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\/46470","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=46470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46471,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46470\/revisions\/46471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}