{"id":47469,"date":"2022-08-15T13:37:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T04:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/15\/new-zealand-covid-cases-at-six-month-low-in-sign-winter-wave-is-easing"},"modified":"2022-08-15T13:37:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T04:37:42","slug":"new-zealand-covid-cases-at-six-month-low-in-sign-winter-wave-is-easing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47469","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Covid cases at six-month low in sign winter wave is easing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday\u2019s daily case numbers lowest since start of Omicron wave in February, with other key indicators also trending down<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s Covid infections have dropped to their lowest level in six months, in signs the winter wave that made it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/08\/covid-becomes-equal-leading-cause-of-death-in-new-zealand-for-first-time\">one of the country\u2019s biggest killers<\/a> is easing.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday the daily health ministry briefing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/472825\/covid-19-update-lowest-number-of-daily-community-cases-since-february\">reported 2,618 cases<\/a>, the lowest number since Omicron cases took off in February. Case numbers rose on Monday to 3,387 but the overall trajectory is steadily down. The ministry reported 536 people hospitalised with the virus on Monday, with 13 cases in intensive care units, and 12 deaths.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/15\/new-zealand-covid-cases-at-six-month-low-in-sign-winter-wave-is-easing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday\u2019s daily case numbers lowest since start of Omicron wave in February, with other key indicators also trending downNew Zealand\u2019s Covid infections have dropped to their lowest level in six months, in signs the winter wave that made it one of the co&#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-47469","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\/47469","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=47469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47470,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47469\/revisions\/47470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}