{"id":22787,"date":"2020-09-17T02:28:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T17:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/16\/its-getting-worse-by-the-day-indias-covid-battle-rages-on"},"modified":"2020-09-17T02:28:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T17:28:54","slug":"its-getting-worse-by-the-day-indias-covid-battle-rages-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22787","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s getting worse by the day&#8217;: India&#8217;s Covid battle rages on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As virus begins to spread through country\u2019s rural areas, true toll of pandemic is becoming apparent<\/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>The first official cases of coronavirus arrived at Niramaya hospital in Mumbai in early May, but they did not come as much of a surprise to Dr Amit Thadhani.<\/p>\n<p>Thadhani, the hospital director, had suspected for weeks that the virus was being virulently transmitted in India\u2019s financial capital, home to 20 million people, after seeing a steady stream of patients with unseasonable viral symptoms. But strict testing restrictions \u2013 and a vehement government denial of community transmission \u2013 meant he had no way to prove or prevent it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/16\/its-getting-worse-by-the-day-indias-covid-battle-rages-on\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As virus begins to spread through country\u2019s rural areas, true toll of pandemic is becoming apparentCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe first official cases of coronavirus arrived at Niramaya hospital in Mumbai in early May, &#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":[1069,62,914,454,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-mumbai","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\/22787","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=22787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22788,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22787\/revisions\/22788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}