{"id":31153,"date":"2021-04-21T02:13:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T17:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/20\/narendra-modi-covid-resurgence-in-india-like-being-hit-by-a-storm"},"modified":"2021-04-21T02:13:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T17:13:49","slug":"narendra-modi-covid-resurgence-in-india-like-being-hit-by-a-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31153","title":{"rendered":"Narendra Modi: Covid resurgence in India like being \u2018hit by a storm\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister faces mounting anger as new cases exceed 250,000 a day and oxygen supplies run out<\/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\u2019s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has warned the country\u2019s resurgence of coronavirus was like being \u201chit by a storm\u201d as new infections exceeded 250,000 a day, with hospitals at risk of being overwhelmed and cremations in some areas carried out around the clock.<\/p>\n<p>His government is facing mounting criticism for its handling of the crisis as oxygen, drugs, tests and hospital beds remain in critically short supply in the worst-hit areas. Modi, however, said that despite the huge scale of the health crisis lockdowns should be seen as a last resort.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/20\/narendra-modi-covid-resurgence-in-india-like-being-hit-by-a-storm\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister faces mounting anger as new cases exceed 250,000 a day and oxygen supplies run outCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia\u2019s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has warned the country\u2019s resurgence of coronavirus was l&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"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":[531,1066,62,433,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boris-johnson","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31153","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\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31154,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31153\/revisions\/31154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}