{"id":21748,"date":"2021-08-19T13:34:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T16:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=21748"},"modified":"2021-08-19T13:52:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T16:52:37","slug":"skycity-auckland-linked-with-covid-19-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/skycity-auckland-linked-with-covid-19-case","title":{"rendered":"SkyCity Auckland linked with Covid-19 case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Auckland Regional Public Health has reported that a guest who visited SkyCity Auckland has tested positive for Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>New Zealand.-\u00a0<strong>SkyCity Entertainment Group&#8217;s<\/strong> Auckland venue is in the spotlight after a guest tests positive for Covid-19. The customer visited on Saturday August 14. According to local media reports,\u00a0<strong>there were 240 workers at SkyCity Auckland<\/strong>\u00a0and thousands of patrons deemed close contacts are now isolating.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company said <strong>it is working with public health services to provide necessary information\u00a0<\/strong>for contact tracing purposes and has closed off an area for deep cleaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the government moved New Zealand to Alert Level 4 from midnight on Tuesday August 17,\u00a0<strong>SkyCity&#8217;s Auckland, Hamilton and Queenstown properties are closed until further notice<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experts believe<strong>\u00a0Auckland will remain under Level 4 for at least one week<\/strong>. People can only leave their houses to buy food or medical supplies or for socially distanced exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SkyCity delays NZICC completion date<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In July, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/skycity-gets-permission-to-put-back-nzicc-completion-date\" target=\"_blank\">SkyCity<\/a> announced that it has extended the date for completion of the New Zealand International Convention Centre (NZICC) from January 2, 2025, to December 15, 2027. The company said its<strong>\u00a0obligations to operate the NZICC\u00a0<\/strong>will also be extended based on the new completion date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The casino operator and its partner, Fletcher Construction Company, hope to\u00a0<strong>complete the development by late 2024<\/strong>\u00a0but said they prefer to be prudent and have a buffer between the programme date and the long stop date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The non-gaming centre will have a<strong>\u00a032,500 square metre gross floor area<\/strong>, a 2,850 seat theatre, world-class dining venues and a five-star, 300-room hotel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auckland Regional Public Health has reported that a guest who visited SkyCity Auckland has tested positive for Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":20536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,28],"tags":[16344,23907,1137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21748"}],"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=21748"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21773,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21748\/revisions\/21773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}