{"id":15375,"date":"2021-03-02T15:37:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T15:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=15375"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:26:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:26:28","slug":"skycity-auckland-closes-after-new-covid-19-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/skycity-auckland-closes-after-new-covid-19-outbreak","title":{"rendered":"SkyCity Auckland closes after new Covid-19 outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The casino will be closed for at least seven days after a new case of Covid-19 in Auckland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>New Zealand.- SkyCity Entertainment Group has <strong>closed its Auckland casino again<\/strong> after the city reverted back to alert level three for at least seven days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The New Zealand government announced the measure after <strong>a new case of Covid-19 was detected in Auckland<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously, a <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/skycity-auckland-closes-under-new-covid-19-lockdown\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>snap three-day lockdown<\/strong><\/a><\/em> was implemented<strong> on Sunday February<\/strong> <strong>14<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The New Zealand casino operator has been <strong>deeply affected by Covid-19 countermeasures<\/strong>, with <strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/skycity-half-year-revenues-fall-76\" target=\"_blank\">revenues down 76 per cent<\/a><\/em> <\/strong>year-on-year in the last six months of 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The casino will be closed for at least seven days after a new case of Covid-19 in Auckland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":15376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"SkyCity Entertainment Group has again closed its Auckland casino for a minimum of seven days following the New Zealand government's reinstatement of Alert Level 3 due to a new COVID-19 case. This operational disruption exacerbates the significant revenue decline experienced by the operator, which reported a 76% year-on-year reduction in the latter half of 2020 due to prior pandemic countermeasures.","focusai_entities":"SkyCity Entertainment Group, New Zealand government","focusai_location":"Auckland, New Zealand","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (0.8), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Financial Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected daily GGR loss for SkyCity Auckland during this seven-day closure, and how will this impact the Q1 2021 NGR guidance for SkyCity Entertainment Group?"},{"label":"Operational Resilience Strategy","query":"What specific operational resilience strategies, including potential B2C digital channel acceleration or cost containment measures, is SkyCity implementing to mitigate the recurring impact of land-based closures?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,28,158],"tags":[23907,1137],"class_list":["post-15375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-casino-news","category-slider-home","tag-land-based-casino","tag-skycity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15402,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15375\/revisions\/15402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}