{"id":23999,"date":"2020-10-20T13:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T04:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/20\/india-at-heart-of-global-efforts-to-produce-covid-vaccine"},"modified":"2020-10-20T13:00:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T04:00:56","slug":"india-at-heart-of-global-efforts-to-produce-covid-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23999","title":{"rendered":"India at heart of global efforts to produce Covid vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country plays central role in development, manufacture \u2013 and possible distribution \u2013 of potential vaccines<\/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>As the largest global supplier of drugs and producer of 60% of the world\u2019s vaccines, India has long been known as the \u201cpharmacy of the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as the frenzied hunt for a Covid-19 vaccine gathers momentum, the country is playing an increasingly strategic and central role in the development, manufacturing \u2013 and, crucially, possible future distribution \u2013 of several possible Covid shots.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/20\/india-at-heart-of-global-efforts-to-produce-covid-vaccine\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country plays central role in development, manufacture \u2013 and possible distribution \u2013 of potential vaccinesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAs the largest global supplier of drugs and producer of 60% of the world\u2019s vaccines, I&#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":[1066,62,79,61,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","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\/23999","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=23999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24000,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23999\/revisions\/24000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}