{"id":31323,"date":"2021-04-23T23:50:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T14:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/23\/rural-doctors-braced-for-devastating-second-wave-as-indias-workers-flee-cities"},"modified":"2021-04-23T23:50:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T14:50:31","slug":"rural-doctors-braced-for-devastating-second-wave-as-indias-workers-flee-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31323","title":{"rendered":"Rural doctors braced for \u2018devastating\u2019 second wave as India\u2019s workers flee cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Covid cases spike, countryside physicians say hospital space is scarce while most infections go unreported<\/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>Scenes of migrant workers massing at bus and train stations, fleeing lockdowns in Indian cities for their villages, are ominous to doctors in the country\u2019s hinterlands.<\/p>\n<p>They know that many of those in the crowds will be returning with Covid-19 strains that are ravaging urban India, leading to record numbers of daily infections this week and the country\u2019s highest daily death tolls since the virus emerged. In parts of rural West Bengal state, where politicians were holding mass election rallies until late this week, the surge has already started.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/23\/rural-doctors-braced-for-devastating-second-wave-as-indias-workers-flee-cities\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Covid cases spike, countryside physicians say hospital space is scarce while most infections go unreportedCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageScenes of migrant workers massing at bus and train stations, fleeing lockdowns in I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2123,"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":[1066,62,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-india","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\/31323","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\/2123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31324,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31323\/revisions\/31324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}