{"id":46565,"date":"2022-07-19T14:59:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T05:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/19\/new-zealand-covid-chiefs-farewell-party-ruined-by-covid"},"modified":"2022-07-19T14:59:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T05:59:12","slug":"new-zealand-covid-chiefs-farewell-party-ruined-by-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46565","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Covid chief\u2019s farewell party ruined \u2026 by Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Ashley Bloomfield dramatically scales back planned event, including cancelling the karaoke, in face of Omicron surge<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s Covid chief has had his farewell party scuppered by a rising wave of Omicron cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve canceled karaoke,\u201d the director general of health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield, said when questioned about his plans for farewelling the high-stress role. \u201cWe\u2019ll do that later in the year, I hope, if the staff still want to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/19\/new-zealand-covid-chiefs-farewell-party-ruined-by-covid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Ashley Bloomfield dramatically scales back planned event, including cancelling the karaoke, in face of Omicron surgeNew Zealand\u2019s Covid chief has had his farewell party scuppered by a rising wave of Omicron cases.\u201cWe\u2019ve canceled karaoke,\u201d the direct&#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-46565","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\/46565","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=46565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46566,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46565\/revisions\/46566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}