{"id":48403,"date":"2022-09-12T14:32:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T05:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/12\/new-zealand-drops-mask-and-vaccine-mandates-in-sweeping-covid-changes"},"modified":"2022-09-12T14:32:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T05:32:58","slug":"new-zealand-drops-mask-and-vaccine-mandates-in-sweeping-covid-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48403","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand drops mask and vaccine mandates in sweeping Covid changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern says it is time to \u2018turn the page\u2019 on the pandemic as she scraps all but a handful of restrictions<\/p>\n<p>Jacinda Ardern has declared it \u201ctime to safely turn the page\u201d on New Zealand\u2019s Covid-19 restrictions, scrapping all but a handful of remaining rules.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand, which once eliminated the virus through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/16\/new-zealand-seeks-to-repeat-world-beating-covid-response-in-face-of-surging-cases\">toughest pandemic rules in the world<\/a>, has made relaxations similar to Australian or European conditions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/12\/new-zealand-drops-mask-and-vaccine-mandates-in-sweeping-covid-changes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern says it is time to \u2018turn the page\u2019 on the pandemic as she scraps all but a handful of restrictionsJacinda Ardern has declared it \u201ctime to safely turn the page\u201d on New Zealand\u2019s Covid-19 restrictions, scrapping all but a handful of remain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"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-48403","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\/48403","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\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48404,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48403\/revisions\/48404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}