{"id":31396,"date":"2021-04-25T21:09:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T12:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/25\/the-world-must-act-indias-covid-crisis-is-a-dire-problem-for-us-all"},"modified":"2021-04-25T21:09:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T12:09:55","slug":"why-indias-worsening-covid-crisis-is-a-dire-problem-for-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31396","title":{"rendered":"Why India\u2019s worsening Covid crisis is a dire problem for the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Urgent supplies are needed to stem the rampant spread of infections in country of 1.4bn<\/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>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/25\/global-covid-jabs-pass-billion-mark-as-indian-government-censors-critical-tweets\">catastrophe unfolding in India<\/a> appears to be the worst-case scenario that many feared from the Covid-19 pandemic: unable to find sufficient hospital beds, access to tests, medicines or oxygen, the country of 1.4 billion is sinking beneath the weight of infections.<\/p>\n<p>The two opposed assumptions of the global response to coronavirus \u2013 wealthy countries in the west prioritising vaccines for their own need in one camp, and the argument led by the World Health Organization for global vaccine equality in the other \u2013 are also failing to hold as the scale of the crisis in India points to an urgent need to prioritise the response there.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/25\/the-world-must-act-indias-covid-crisis-is-a-dire-problem-for-us-all\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Urgent supplies are needed to stem the rampant spread of infections in country of 1.4bnCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe catastrophe unfolding in India appears to be the worst-case scenario that many feared from &#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":[1066,62,914,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31396","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\/31396","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=31396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31397,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31396\/revisions\/31397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}