{"id":29902,"date":"2021-03-19T00:16:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T15:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/18\/uk-covid-vaccine-supply-hit-as-rise-in-indian-cases-diverts-doses-closer-to-home"},"modified":"2021-03-19T00:16:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T15:16:40","slug":"how-a-surge-of-covid-cases-in-india-hit-the-uks-vaccine-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29902","title":{"rendered":"How a surge of Covid cases in India hit the UK&#8217;s vaccine supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serum Institute of India, world\u2019s biggest vaccine producer, asked by Delhi to keep more doses in country<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An office worker in India\u2019s Maharashtra state develops flu-like symptoms \u2013 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/18\/matt-hancock-tells-mps-retest-on-covid-doses-and-delays-in-india-will-hit-uk-jabs\">upsets the vaccination plans<\/a> of a British fortysomething in lockdown thousands of miles away.<\/p>\n<p>Such is the butterfly effect of the global scramble for Covid-19 vaccines, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/health-coronavirus-india-cases-idUSKBN2BA0TQ\">surge in Indian cases<\/a> over the past week, as well as an acceleration of the country\u2019s own vaccination rollout, resulting in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/18\/matt-hancock-tells-mps-retest-on-covid-doses-and-delays-in-india-will-hit-uk-jabs\">major shortage <\/a>in Britain that could delay jabs for at least a month for people under the age of 50.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/18\/uk-covid-vaccine-supply-hit-as-rise-in-indian-cases-diverts-doses-closer-to-home\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serum Institute of India, world\u2019s biggest vaccine producer, asked by Delhi to keep more doses in countryCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAn office worker in India\u2019s Maharashtra state develops flu-like symptoms \u2013 and upsets th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2020,"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":[918,1066,62,914,512,916,299,61,52,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-science","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-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\/29902","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\/2020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29903,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29902\/revisions\/29903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}