{"id":31521,"date":"2021-04-28T14:42:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T05:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/apr\/28\/crematoriums-in-delhi-forced-to-build-makeshift-pyres-as-indias-covid-crisis-intensifies-video"},"modified":"2021-04-28T14:42:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T05:42:47","slug":"crematoriums-in-delhi-forced-to-build-makeshift-pyres-as-indias-covid-crisis-intensifies-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31521","title":{"rendered":"Crematoriums in Delhi forced to build makeshift pyres as India&#8217;s Covid crisis intensifies \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crematoriums in Delhi have been forced to build makeshift funeral pyres on spare patches of land after being inundated by bodies from the surging Covid-19 crisis sweeping India. Crematoriums across the city have been building new platforms after ambulances carrying bodies and grieving families were forced to wait for hours for a funeral pyre. The country recorded 300,000 new Covid cases on Tuesday and 2,771 new deaths. However, health experts believe the official toll to be far higher<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/28\/india-covid-funeral-pyres-delhi-crematoriums-space\">India\u2019s Covid crisis: Delhi crematoriums forced to build makeshift pyres<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/apr\/28\/crematoriums-in-delhi-forced-to-build-makeshift-pyres-as-indias-covid-crisis-intensifies-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crematoriums in Delhi have been forced to build makeshift funeral pyres on spare patches of land after being inundated by bodies from the surging Covid-19 crisis sweeping India. Crematoriums across the city have been building new platforms after ambula&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31521","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31539,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31521\/revisions\/31539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}