{"id":954484,"date":"2021-11-02T16:28:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T20:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=954484"},"modified":"2021-11-02T16:28:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T20:28:54","slug":"leftist-new-zealand-government-eases-coronavirus-restrictions-with-record-daily-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftist-new-zealand-government-eases-coronavirus-restrictions-with-record-daily-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftist New Zealand Government Eases Coronavirus Restrictions with Record Daily Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fleftist-new-zealand-government-eases-coronavirus-restrictions-with-record-daily-cases%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=954484&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1350751037-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">New Zealand\u2019s government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2021-11-01\/jacinda-ardern-announces-changes-in-auckland-despite-increasing-\/100585654\">announced<\/a> plans on Monday to ease coronavirus restrictions in Aukland despite state health officials earlier that same day recording the country\u2019s highest number of new daily cases since the start of the pandemic, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s Cabinet agreed on November 1 to reduce the coronavirus alert level for Auckland \u2014 New Zealand\u2019s most populous urban center \u2014 at 11:59 p.m. on November 9.<\/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>\u201cThis means retail can return, public facilities can open and gatherings outdoors \u2026 can increase to 25,\u201d far-left New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said while announcing the Cabinet\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/health\/coronavirus\/300443223\/covid19-nervous-reaction-to-easing-of-lockdown-restrictions-in-auckland\">documented<\/a> 162 new coronavirus infections on November 1. The figure marked the country\u2019s highest number of new cases reported in a single 24 hour period since the onset of the pandemic. Of the 162 new infections, 156 were detected in Auckland alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those who have concerns about any easing, here I would say that \u2014 because of high vaccination rates in Auckland \u2014 we can move forward with greater confidence,\u201d Ardern assured the New Zealand public on November 1.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>She said New Zealand\u2019s \u201cdaily [coronavirus] cases, while growing, were within expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, yes, we have seen a growth in cases, but that is not unexpected for where we are in this particular outbreak,\u201d Ardern told reporters Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we are still seeing very manageable hospitalizations and that is absolutely the impact that vaccines are having on this outbreak,\u201d the leader added.<\/p>\n<p>Aukland has a population of nearly 1.7 million. The city\u2019s vaccination rate against the Chinese coronavirus stood at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.govt.nz\/news-media\/media-releases\/more-27000-vaccines-administered-yesterday-49-hospital-126-community-cases\">81 percent<\/a> as of November 2. New Zealand has a population of nearly 4.9 million and a coronavirus vaccination rate of 76 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The government of New Zealand&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2021\/10\/12\/new-zealand-mandates-coronavirus-vaccines-health-workers\/\">observed<\/a> a zero-tolerance policy toward coronavirus for most of the pandemic, \u201cusing sharp and harsh lockdowns to crush outbreaks as they happened,\u201d ABC recalled on November 1.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHowever, a month ago, New Zealand moved away from its elimination strategy, insisting vaccines were now the best way to prevent a widespread outbreak,\u201d according to the broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Ms Ardern announced New Zealand\u2019s new direction [on November 1], she said Auckland\u2019s lockdown would be scaled back in stages,\u201d ABC noted.<\/p>\n<p>Aukland has been under strict coronavirus lockdown orders for the past 77 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Zealand, for the first time in months, reported a case of community spread of the coronavirus on Aug. 17,\u201d the <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/01\/world\/australia\/delta-new-zealand-lockdown.html\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;October 22.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHours later came the expected announcement: The country, after a single case of the Delta variant, would plunge into a highly restrictive three-day lockdown,\u201d the newspaper recalled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo weeks later, New Zealand is still in lockdown, one that will last at least another 14 days. One case has become nearly 700, with almost three dozen requiring hospitalization,\u201d the <em>Times<\/em> observed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMs. Ardern and other leaders have begun to acknowledge that New Zealand may eventually have to change course as the virus continues to spread,\u201d the U.S.-based newspaper wrote, seeming to predict Aukland\u2019s abandonment of its \u201czero-tolerance\u201d virus policy this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand\u2019s government announced plans on Monday to ease coronavirus restrictions in Aukland despite state health officials earlier that same day recording the country\u2019s highest number of new daily cases &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}