{"id":27489,"date":"2021-01-29T02:03:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T17:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/28\/dramatic-drop-in-covid-cases-gives-india-hope-of-return-to-normal-life"},"modified":"2021-01-29T02:03:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T17:03:08","slug":"dramatic-drop-in-covid-cases-gives-india-hope-of-return-to-normal-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27489","title":{"rendered":"Dramatic drop in Covid cases gives India hope of return to normal life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swimming pools, cinemas and theatres to be allowed to operate at full capacity from 1 February<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s health minister, Harsh Vardhan, has claimed it has \u201csuccessfully contained the pandemic\u201d and \u201cflattened its Covid-19 graph\u201d as the country of 1.34 billion people reported just 12,000 new cases in the past 24 hours \u2013 a stark contrast to the 90,000 cases a day being reported in September.<\/p>\n<p>With more than 10.7m coronavirus cases, India still has the second highest number in the world, but over the past two months it has seen a steady and steep decline in new cases, despite little by way of restrictions to prevent the spread of infection.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/28\/dramatic-drop-in-covid-cases-gives-india-hope-of-return-to-normal-life\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swimming pools, cinemas and theatres to be allowed to operate at full capacity from 1 FebruaryIndia\u2019s health minister, Harsh Vardhan, has claimed it has \u201csuccessfully contained the pandemic\u201d and \u201cflattened its Covid-19 graph\u201d as the country of 1.34 bil&#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":[918,1066,346,62,914,512,916,299,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-science","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/27489","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=27489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27490,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27489\/revisions\/27490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}