{"id":31718,"date":"2021-05-03T22:56:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T13:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/03\/vaccine-shortages-blight-indias-efforts-to-contain-covid-crisis"},"modified":"2021-05-03T22:56:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T13:56:23","slug":"vaccine-shortages-blight-indias-efforts-to-contain-covid-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31718","title":{"rendered":"Vaccine shortages blight India\u2019s efforts to contain Covid crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian government accused of complacency, with shortage of jabs likely to continue \u2018for months\u2019<\/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>Severe Covid-19 vaccine shortages have hampered India\u2019s plan to administer jabs to all adults, with fewer then half of India\u2019s states able to begin vaccinating over-18s amid warnings the shortfall could last months.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, more than 600 million Indians became eligible for the coronavirus vaccine in a policy that was introduced in the wake of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/30\/covid-victims-overwhelm-delhi-crematoriums\">deadly second wave<\/a> hitting the country last month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/03\/vaccine-shortages-blight-indias-efforts-to-contain-covid-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian government accused of complacency, with shortage of jabs likely to continue \u2018for months\u2019Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSevere Covid-19 vaccine shortages have hampered India\u2019s plan to administer jabs to all adults, wi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"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":[1066,62,914,299,61,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-south-and-central-asia","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","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\/31718","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31719,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31718\/revisions\/31719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}