{"id":31206,"date":"2021-04-21T20:23:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T11:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/apr\/21\/indias-government-abandoned-citizens-deadly-second-covid-wave"},"modified":"2021-04-21T20:23:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T11:23:40","slug":"indias-government-has-abandoned-its-citizens-to-face-a-deadly-second-wave-alone-rukmini-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31206","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s government has abandoned its citizens to face a deadly second wave alone | Rukmini S"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite enforcing one of the strictest lockdowns last year, the authorities seem unable to cope with a renewed Covid surge<\/p>\n<p>At 7.52pm on 16 April, Vinay Srivastava, a 65-year-old freelance journalist in Lucknow, the capital city of India\u2019s largest state Uttar Pradesh, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VinaySr18286715\/status\/1383063134957498368\">tweeted<\/a> the state\u2019s chief minister Yogi Adityanath that his oxygen levels had fallen to 52, but no hospital, doctor or lab was picking up the phone. His symptoms pointed to Covid-19, but he was unable to get a test, and his son went from hospital to hospital through the night, pleading in vain for a bed for his father.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/20\/narendra-modi-covid-resurgence-in-india-like-being-hit-by-a-storm\">Narendra Modi: Covid resurgence in India like being \u2018hit by a storm\u2019 <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/apr\/21\/indias-government-abandoned-citizens-deadly-second-covid-wave\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite enforcing one of the strictest lockdowns last year, the authorities seem unable to cope with a renewed Covid surgeAt 7.52pm on 16 April, Vinay Srivastava, a 65-year-old freelance journalist in Lucknow, the capital city of India\u2019s largest state &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1423,"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":[1066,62,914,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-narendra-modi","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\/31206","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\/1423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31207,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31206\/revisions\/31207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}