{"id":31373,"date":"2021-04-25T03:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/24\/indias-covid-death-toll-hides-stark-truth-for-the-poor-its-even-worse"},"modified":"2021-04-25T03:00:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T18:00:44","slug":"indias-covid-death-toll-hides-stark-truth-for-the-poor-its-even-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31373","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Covid death toll hides stark truth: for the poor, it\u2019s even worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many patients do not have access to healthcare or do not come forward for tests, so official statistics could be the tip of the iceberg, doctors warn<\/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 daily Covid deaths and infections hit new records on Saturday, but doctors and bereaved families have warned that even these bleak official statistics are seriously underestimating the scale of the country\u2019s tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>As a court in Delhi said India is facing not just a second wave but a \u201ctsunami\u201d, and hospitals had to turn patients away as they ran out of both beds and oxygen, people in many parts of India are still avoiding testing or struggling to access it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/24\/indias-covid-death-toll-hides-stark-truth-for-the-poor-its-even-worse\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many patients do not have access to healthcare or do not come forward for tests, so official statistics could be the tip of the iceberg, doctors warnCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia\u2019s daily Covid deaths and infections h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2127,"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-31373","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\/31373","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\/2127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31377,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31373\/revisions\/31377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}