{"id":26331,"date":"2021-01-05T17:00:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/05\/covid-vaccinations-slow-start-around-world-dose-reality"},"modified":"2021-01-05T17:00:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T08:00:52","slug":"covid-vaccinations-slow-start-around-world-brings-dose-of-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26331","title":{"rendered":"Covid vaccinations: slow start around world brings dose of reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burst of optimism over approvals has been followed by delays, shortages and bureaucratic errors<\/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 global introduction of newly approved coronavirus vaccines has been marked by delays, shortages and bureaucratic errors as it has become clear that many governments will miss their targets for mass inoculation.<\/p>\n<p>The burst of optimism that arrived with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2020\/dec\/02\/pfizer-biontech-covid-vaccine-wins-licence-for-use-in-the-uk\">approvals of new vaccines<\/a> \u2013 encouraged by unrealistic expectations raised by politicians \u2013 is colliding with the reality of the challenge of vaccinating a large part of the world\u2019s population.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/05\/covid-vaccinations-slow-start-around-world-dose-reality\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burst of optimism over approvals has been followed by delays, shortages and bureaucratic errorsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe global introduction of newly approved coronavirus vaccines has been marked by delays, shortag&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"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":[401,50,1066,221,530,526,346,62,1005,532,47,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-europe","category-european-union","category-france","category-health","category-india","category-israel","category-south-africa","category-us-news","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\/26331","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\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26332,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26331\/revisions\/26332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}