{"id":21104,"date":"2020-06-08T12:24:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T08:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=21104"},"modified":"2020-06-08T12:24:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T08:24:51","slug":"new-zealand-is-covid-19-free-last-case-now-recovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2020\/06\/08\/new-zealand-is-covid-19-free-last-case-now-recovered\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand is COVID-19 free, last case now recovered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New Zealand has no known active cases of COVID-19, the Ministry of Health declared on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last remaining case, a woman from Auckland, has now been symptom free for 48 hours and is regarded as recovered, the German news agency, DPA, reported citing the Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said the person was now able to leave isolation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is really good news for the person concerned, and it&#8217;s also something the rest of New Zealand can take heart from. Having no active cases for the first time since February was a significant mark in our journey&#8221;, Bloomfield said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;But as we&#8217;ve previously said, ongoing vigilance against COVID-19 will continue to be essential&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has now been 17 days since the last new case of COVID-19 was reported in New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country has reported a total of&nbsp;1,504 confirmed and probable cases, with a death toll of 22 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Zealand could lift COVID-19 restrictions as early as Wednesday, with only strict border controls in place, added DPA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand has no known active cases of COVID-19, the Ministry of Health declared on Monday. The last remaining case, a woman from Auckland, has now been symptom free for 48 hours and is regarded as recovered, the German news agency, DPA, reported citing the Ministry. Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said the person was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21106,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21104\/revisions\/21106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}