{"id":25836,"date":"2020-12-19T18:49:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T09:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/19\/india-covid-10m-country-plans-vaccination-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-12-19T18:49:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T09:49:33","slug":"covid-cases-in-india-reach-10m-as-country-plans-vaccination-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25836","title":{"rendered":"Covid cases in India reach 10m as country plans vaccination programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coronavirus epidemic has infected nearly 1% of country\u2019s 1.3bn people <\/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\u2019s confirmed coronavirus cases have crossed 10 million with new infections dipping to their lowest levels in three months, as the country prepares for a massive Covid-19 vaccination programme in the new year.<\/p>\n<p>Additional cases in the past 24 hours dropped to 25,152 from a peak of nearly 100,000 in mid-September. The epidemic has infected nearly 1% of India\u2019s more than 1.3 billion people, second to the worst-hit country in the world, the US.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/19\/india-covid-10m-country-plans-vaccination-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coronavirus epidemic has infected nearly 1% of country\u2019s 1.3bn people Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage India\u2019s confirmed coronavirus cases have crossed 10 million with new infections dipping to their lowest levels in three m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1694,"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":[1066,62,61,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25836","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\/1694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25840,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25836\/revisions\/25840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}