{"id":30851,"date":"2021-04-12T22:37:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T13:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/12\/ganges-crowds-highlight-distancing-challenges-as-covid-cases-soar-in-india"},"modified":"2021-04-12T22:37:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T13:37:08","slug":"ganges-crowds-highlight-distancing-challenges-as-covid-cases-soar-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30851","title":{"rendered":"Ganges crowds highlight distancing challenges as Covid cases soar in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New infections passed 160,000 a day over the weekend, and vaccine shortages are being reported<\/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>More than two million devotees bathed in the River Ganges on Monday despite soaring rates of new Covid-19 cases across India, a second wave that has struck down Bollywood stars, sent migrant workers fleeing from cities and contributed to the slowing of vaccination programmes around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The largest bathing day of the Hindu religious festival Kumbh Mela in the northern Indian city of Haridwar highlighted the immense challenge facing officials in trying to implement social distancing as the daily rate of new Covid-19 cases crossed 160,000 over the weekend, India\u2019s highest point since the beginning of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/12\/ganges-crowds-highlight-distancing-challenges-as-covid-cases-soar-in-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New infections passed 160,000 a day over the weekend, and vaccine shortages are being reportedCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMore than two million devotees bathed in the River Ganges on Monday despite soaring rates of new C&#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":[1066,62,61,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30851","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\/30851","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=30851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30852,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30851\/revisions\/30852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}