{"id":31208,"date":"2021-04-21T20:15:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T11:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/21\/system-has-collapsed-india-descent-into-covid-hell"},"modified":"2021-04-21T20:15:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T11:15:55","slug":"the-system-has-collapsed-indias-descent-into-covid-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31208","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The system has collapsed\u2019: India\u2019s descent into Covid hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many falsely believed that the country had defeated Covid. Now hospitals are running out of oxygen and bodies are stacking up in morgues<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Looking out over a sea of jostling, maskless faces gathered at a political rally in West Bengal on Saturday, the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, proudly proclaimed that he had \u201cnever ever seen such huge crowds\u201d. A mask was also noticeably absent from Modi\u2019s face.<\/p>\n<p>That same day, India registered a record-breaking 234,000 new coronavirus cases and 1,341 deaths \u2013 and the numbers have kept rising since.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/21\/system-has-collapsed-india-descent-into-covid-hell\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many falsely believed that the country had defeated Covid. Now hospitals are running out of oxygen and bodies are stacking up in morguesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageLooking out over a sea of jostling, maskless faces gathe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"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":[1066,62,914,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","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\/31208","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31209,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31208\/revisions\/31209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}