{"id":16956,"date":"2020-04-07T18:15:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T09:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/07\/india-releases-hydroxychloroquine-stocks-amid-pressure-from-trump"},"modified":"2020-04-07T18:15:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T09:15:20","slug":"india-releases-hydroxychloroquine-stocks-amid-pressure-from-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16956","title":{"rendered":"India releases hydroxychloroquine stocks amid pressure from Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president called Modi and threatened \u2018retaliation\u2019 if country kept full export ban<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>India has approved some exports of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/06\/hydroxychloroquine-trump-coronavirus-drug?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;CMP=twt_gu&amp;utm_medium&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1586237346\">hydroxychloroquine<\/a>, an anti-malaria drug being touted as a possible coronavirus treatment, after apparent pressure from Donald Trump, who has been urging Americans to take it.<\/p>\n<p>The tablets are used to prevent and treat malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis but over the past week the US president has been aggressively promoting the drug as a treatment for coronavirus, despite there being no conclusive medical evidence to prove its efficacy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/07\/india-releases-hydroxychloroquine-stocks-amid-pressure-from-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president called Modi and threatened \u2018retaliation\u2019 if country kept full export banCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia has approved some exports of hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug being touted as a possible coro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,62,914,423,512,299,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-malaria","category-medical-research","category-science","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16957,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16956\/revisions\/16957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}