{"id":31118,"date":"2021-04-20T01:21:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T16:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/19\/indian-expansion-of-covid-vaccine-drive-may-further-strain-supplies"},"modified":"2021-04-20T01:21:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T16:21:38","slug":"indian-expansion-of-covid-vaccine-drive-may-further-strain-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31118","title":{"rendered":"Indian expansion of Covid vaccine drive may further strain supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All adults to be eligible from 1 May, making jab available to at least 400 million more people<\/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>India has announced it will soon open its vaccination programme to every adult in response to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/17\/new-delhi-placed-under-weekend-lockdown-as-covid-wave-worsens\">soaring Covid-19 infections<\/a> \u2013 a measure that could further strain supplies in parts of the world reliant on Indian-made vaccines for their own campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>From 1 May, Indian states will be free to administer doses to anyone aged older than 18, the central government announced on Monday as part of a package of policies to tackle a second wave that has overwhelmed hospitals and led to oxygen shortages across the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/19\/indian-expansion-of-covid-vaccine-drive-may-further-strain-supplies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All adults to be eligible from 1 May, making jab available to at least 400 million more peopleCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia has announced it will soon open its vaccination programme to every adult in response to soar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"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":[1066,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/31118","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\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31119,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31118\/revisions\/31119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}