{"id":31201,"date":"2021-04-21T22:21:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T13:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/21\/ex-indian-pm-manmohan-singh-admitted-hospital-covid"},"modified":"2021-04-21T22:21:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T13:21:43","slug":"ex-indian-pm-manmohan-singh-admitted-to-hospital-with-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31201","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Indian PM Manmohan Singh admitted to hospital with Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former leader, 88, developed fever and tested positive despite recently getting vaccinated<\/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>Among the most high-profile cases in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/21\/system-has-collapsed-india-descent-into-covid-hell\">India\u2019s devastating second wave of coronavirus infections<\/a> is the former prime minister Manmohan Singh, who was admitted to hospital this week after testing positive despite being recently vaccinated against Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Singh, 88, who developed a fever on Sunday and tested positive a day later, is an economist, academic and member of the Congress party who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jan\/03\/india-manmohan-singh-rahul-gandhi-narendra-modi\">led the country for a decade between 2004 and 2014<\/a> and was the first Sikh to hold the office.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/21\/ex-indian-pm-manmohan-singh-admitted-hospital-covid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former leader, 88, developed fever and tested positive despite recently getting vaccinatedCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAmong the most high-profile cases in India\u2019s devastating second wave of coronavirus infections is the &#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":[1066,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31201","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\/31201","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=31201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31202,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31201\/revisions\/31202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}