{"id":31645,"date":"2021-05-02T00:16:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T15:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/01\/were-burning-pyres-all-day-india-accused-of-undercounting-deaths"},"modified":"2021-05-02T00:16:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T15:16:37","slug":"were-burning-pyres-all-day-india-accused-of-undercounting-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31645","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re burning pyres all day\u2019: India accused of undercounting deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fears of cover-up as crematoriums record twice the number of Covid fatalities as official death toll <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/may\/01\/coronavirus-live-news-controversial-england-care-home-rule-scrapped-india-daily-cases-top-400000-for-first-time\"><strong>Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\"><strong>See all our coronavirus coverage<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As India battles through one of the world\u2019s deadliest surges of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\" title=\"\">Covid-19 pandemic<\/a>, this week India\u2019s health minister Harsh Vardhan insisted that its fatality rate from the disease remained \u201cthe lowest in the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It was a statement that jarred with the devastating images and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/01\/india-covid-crisis-government-ignored-warnings-on-variant-scientists-say\" title=\"\">accounts that have flowed out of India<\/a> in the past fortnight, of hospitals and morgues filled to capacity, people dying on pavements from scarcity of oxygen, and crematoriums and graveyards visibly overflowing with bodies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/01\/were-burning-pyres-all-day-india-accused-of-undercounting-deaths\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fears of cover-up as crematoriums record twice the number of Covid fatalities as official death toll Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAs India battles through one of the world\u2019s deadliest surges of the Covid-19 pandemic, this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2150,"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-31645","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\/31645","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\/2150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31646,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31645\/revisions\/31646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}