{"id":46928,"date":"2022-08-01T10:53:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T01:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/new-zealand-borders-fully-reopened-as-last-covid-restrictions-lifted"},"modified":"2022-08-01T10:53:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T01:53:22","slug":"new-zealand-borders-fully-reopened-as-last-covid-restrictions-lifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46928","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand borders fully reopened as last Covid restrictions lifted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cruise ships, international students and visitors from China and India among those who will be able to once again travel to New Zealand<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s borders are fully open for the first time since they abruptly snapped shut to keep Covid-19 out in March 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, said the nation was \u201copen for business\u201d after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/11\/new-zealand-to-fully-reopen-borders-for-first-time-since-covid-pandemic-started\">final stage of the phased reopening<\/a>, which began in April, was completed on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/new-zealand-borders-fully-reopened-as-last-covid-restrictions-lifted\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cruise ships, international students and visitors from China and India among those who will be able to once again travel to New ZealandNew Zealand\u2019s borders are fully open for the first time since they abruptly snapped shut to keep Covid-19 out in Marc&#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":[41,1066,56,527,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-new-zealand","category-travel","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\/46928","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=46928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46929,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46928\/revisions\/46929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}