{"id":9700,"date":"2020-09-05T15:45:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T15:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=9700"},"modified":"2026-04-24T02:07:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:07:04","slug":"nz-extends-covid-19-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/nz-extends-covid-19-measures","title":{"rendered":"NZ extends Covid-19 measures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The country has recorded its first death due to Covid-19 in three months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Zealand.- Prime Minister Jacinta Ardern has decided to keep current lockdown measures in place at least until mid-September after the country reported its first death related to Covid-19 in three months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 50-year-old man died last week in Auckland. The city will remain on alert level 2.5, while the rest of the country remains on level 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a message in SkyCity Auckland\u2019s website, the casino was <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/skycity-to-reopen-auckland-casino-next-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">due to open this weekend<\/a><\/em><\/strong> under level of alert 2 for Gold, Platinum and VIP Black Premier Rewards members. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reopening will now not be possible until at least September 14, when the government will revise restrictions again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As well as SkyCity, the extention of the measures also hit <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/nz-extends-auckland-lockdown-until-sunday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TAB NZ<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country has recorded its first death due to Covid-19 in three months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"New Zealand has extended its COVID-19 lockdown measures until mid-September following a recent death, directly impacting land-based gaming operations. This decision forces SkyCity Auckland to delay its planned reopening for VIP members and affects TAB NZ, leading to continued operational disruption and revenue loss for these licensed entities.","focusai_entities":"Jacinta Ardern, SkyCity Auckland, TAB NZ","focusai_location":"New Zealand, Auckland","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"SkyCity GGR Impact?","query":"What is the projected daily Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) impact for SkyCity Auckland due to this extended operational closure?"},{"label":"SkyCity Financial Guidance?","query":"How will this prolonged closure affect SkyCity's H2 2020 financial guidance and capital expenditure plans, particularly concerning its land-based assets?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,161,156,158],"tags":[2603,338,337],"class_list":["post-9700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-daily-news","category-regulation-news","category-slider-home","tag-auckland","tag-new-zealand","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9700","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9703,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9700\/revisions\/9703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}