{"id":22527,"date":"2020-09-08T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/07\/india-becomes-country-with-second-highest-number-of-covid-cases"},"modified":"2020-09-08T00:00:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T15:00:58","slug":"india-becomes-country-with-second-highest-number-of-covid-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22527","title":{"rendered":"India becomes country with second highest number of Covid cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With 4.1m cases, south Asian nation is now second only to US in terms of number of infections <\/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 surpassed Brazil to become the country with the second highest number of coronavirus cases, as the virus continues to spread through the country of 1.3 billion at the fastest rate of anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>India recorded more than 90,000 cases overnight, bringing the number of infections in the country past 4.2 million and overtaking Brazil, which with 4.1 million cases had been the second worst-affected country for several months.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/07\/india-becomes-country-with-second-highest-number-of-covid-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 4.1m cases, south Asian nation is now second only to US in terms of number of infections Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia has surpassed Brazil to become the country with the second highest number of coronavirus cas&#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":[452,1069,62,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brazil","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-india","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\/22527","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=22527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22528,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22527\/revisions\/22528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}