{"id":67159,"date":"2020-03-26T11:04:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T03:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=67159"},"modified":"2020-03-26T11:28:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T03:28:44","slug":"new-zealand-reports-78-new-cases-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=67159","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Reports 78 New Cases Of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WELLINGTON, Mar 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; New Zealand recorded 78 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 today (Thursday), the first day of the national lock-down, bringing the total number of confirmed and probable cases to 283.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director-General of Health, Ashley Bloomfield, told a press conference that 27 people have recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the newly discovered cases, seven people are hospitalised, but none of them are in intensive care units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bloomfield said, some of the new cases are related to overseas travel and previous mass gatherings, such as, the World Hereford Conference in Queenstown, a wedding in Wellington, and a group trip to the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police Commissioner, Mike Bush, said, those returning to New Zealand from overseas today, Thursday, without a plan for isolation, have been sent to self-isolation locations by customs and police officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Zealand declared a state of emergency on Wednesday, before entering a national lock-down today.&#8211; NNN-AGENCIES  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WELLINGTON, Mar 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; New Zealand recorded 78 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 today (Thursday), the first day of the national lock-down, bringing the total number of confirmed and probable cases to 283. Director-General of Health, Ashley Bloomfield, told a press conference that 27 people have recovered. Among the newly discovered cases, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":67182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}