{"id":30803,"date":"2021-04-11T17:21:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T08:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/11\/india-steps-up-vaccine-effort-as-covid-cases-hit-record-high"},"modified":"2021-04-11T17:21:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T08:21:32","slug":"india-steps-up-vaccine-effort-as-covid-cases-hit-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30803","title":{"rendered":"India steps up vaccine effort as Covid cases hit record high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>States consider tougher restrictions to slow spread of virus as country fights second wave of infections<\/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>New Covid-19 cases in India surged to a record 152,879 as the country battled a second wave of infections by pushing for faster vaccinations, with some states considering tougher restrictions to slow the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>India leads the world in the daily average number of new infections reported, accounting for one in every six infections reported globally each day.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/11\/india-steps-up-vaccine-effort-as-covid-cases-hit-record-high\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>States consider tougher restrictions to slow spread of virus as country fights second wave of infectionsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Covid-19 cases in India surged to a record 152,879 as the country battled a second w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[1066,62,914,299,61,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","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\/30803","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30810,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30803\/revisions\/30810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}