{"id":18933,"date":"2020-06-03T08:55:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T23:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/03\/cyclone-nisarga-india-evacuates-100000-as-mumbai-braces-for-historic-storm"},"modified":"2020-06-03T08:55:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T23:55:30","slug":"cyclone-nisarga-india-evacuates-100000-as-mumbai-awaits-historic-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18933","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Nisarga: India evacuates 100,000 as Mumbai awaits historic storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First cyclone in 70 years for financial capital sparks rush to transfer Covid-19 patients and sanitise temporary shelters<\/p>\n<p>At least 100,000 people including coronavirus patients were being moved to safety as India\u2019s west coast braced for a cyclone \u2013 the first such storm to threaten Mumbai in more than 70 years.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in India\u2019s financial capital, which is struggling to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, evacuated nearly 150 virus patients from a recently built field hospital to a facility with a concrete roof as a precautionary measure, officials said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/03\/cyclone-nisarga-india-evacuates-100000-as-mumbai-braces-for-historic-storm\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First cyclone in 70 years for financial capital sparks rush to transfer Covid-19 patients and sanitise temporary sheltersAt least 100,000 people including coronavirus patients were being moved to safety as India\u2019s west coast braced for a cyclone \u2013 the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[62,454,157,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-mumbai","category-natural-disasters-and-extreme-weather","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18933","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18934,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18933\/revisions\/18934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}