{"id":1395848,"date":"2022-03-23T09:15:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T13:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1395848"},"modified":"2022-03-23T09:15:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T13:15:40","slug":"new-zealand-drops-strict-coronavirus-lockdown-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-zealand-drops-strict-coronavirus-lockdown-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Drops Strict Coronavirus Lockdown Measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-zealand-drops-strict-coronavirus-lockdown-measures%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1395848&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">New Zealand\u2019s government announced Wednesday it is set to shelve most of its remaining coronavirus restrictions on the 4th of April as omicron begins to fizzle out.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/1560733\/GB-News-Dan-Wootton-Jacinda-Ardern-New-Zealand-border-covid-ont\">hard-left<\/a> Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, declared vaccine requirements will be removed from public venues such as\u00a0retail stores, restaurants and bars, meaning the unvaccinated will once again be allowed out.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Some professions will also be dropping the mandate \u2013 including waiters, police officers and teachers \u2013 however, those working as corrections officers, border force officials, health care and aged-care workers, will still require a vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Crowd restrictions have also been removed from outside venues and increased from 100-200 at indoor events from Friday, but while masks mandates for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-60792824\">outside areas<\/a> will be scrapped, they will still be required in most enclosed areas, including on public transport, stores and for those aged 8 and over at schools, the\u00a0<em>New Zealand Herald<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/covid-19-omicron-rules-changed-outdoor-gathering-limits-scrapped-vaccine-passes-and-some-mandates-end-april-4-jacinda-ardern\/C6P6WKNMH45S2EB54YBCW76OHI\/\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday blamed mysterious \u201cimported\u201d forces for the protests against her vaccine mandates that dominate the national capital. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ENhkutQAEE\">https:\/\/t.co\/ENhkutQAEE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1493241487487868929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Britain\u2019s government has previously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/02\/11\/they-inhibit-learning-uk-defends-ending-school-mask-mandates\/\">warned against<\/a> having mask mandates in schools, with Education Secretary, Nadhim Zahawi, insisting they make it \u201cmuch harder to communicate\u201d and \u201cmuch more difficult for children to learn\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ardern,\u00a0a former president of the International Union of Socialist Youth, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/wires\/ap\/article-10642149\/New-Zealand-remove-pandemic-mandates-omicron-wanes.html\">said<\/a>\u00a0while she believes her mandates had been \u201csuccessful, it\u00b4s also been bloody hard\u201d, and that \u201ceveryone has had to give up something to make this work, and some more than others\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This is a possible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/11\/new-zealand-police-back-off-as-freedom-convoy-protests-build\/\">reference<\/a> to the freedom convoy protests that took place outside of the Parliament in the capital Wellington in February where an estimated peak of 1,500 demonstrators rallied outside the Parliament and demanded an end to\u00a0vaccine pass requirements for a number of public activities such as religious services, as well as calling for the end of vaccine mandates for certain jobs such as for health professionals or police officers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NUTS: New Zealand imposed a national lockdown Tuesday over a single case of coronavirus. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CxZlVHwyiN\">https:\/\/t.co\/CxZlVHwyiN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1427954528855498752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While Ardern at the time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/02\/21\/new-zealand-coronavirus-restrictions-stay-pm-jacinda-ardern-says-battle-just-begun\/\">announced<\/a>\u00a0she\u00a0wouldn\u2019t lift coronavirus restrictions until they are \u201cwell beyond\u201d the peak of the virus, which she claimed in February would be around mid-late March, it appears she has given into calls from those pushing to relax restrictions, ahead of her initial schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand\u2019s government announced Wednesday it is set to shelve most of its remaining coronavirus restrictions on the 4th of April as omicron begins to fizzle out. 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