{"id":31736,"date":"2021-05-04T15:30:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T06:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/04\/india-passes-20m-covid-cases-as-calls-grow-for-national-lockdown"},"modified":"2021-05-04T15:30:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T06:30:29","slug":"india-passes-20m-covid-cases-as-calls-grow-for-national-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31736","title":{"rendered":"India passes 20m Covid cases as calls grow for national lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country grappling with oxygen shortages and lack of beds while crematoriums are overloaded<\/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 has passed a grim milestone of 20 million Covid-19 cases amid growing calls for the country to go into a national lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, India reported 357,229 new cases over the last 24 hours, while the number of deaths rose by 3,449 as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/30\/covid-victims-overwhelm-delhi-crematoriums\">deadly wave of the virus<\/a> showed no signs of relenting. Many health experts believe India\u2019s true death toll to be five to 10 times higher than official data.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/04\/india-passes-20m-covid-cases-as-calls-grow-for-national-lockdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country grappling with oxygen shortages and lack of beds while crematoriums are overloadedCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia has passed a grim milestone of 20 million Covid-19 cases amid growing calls for the country to g&#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":[1066,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31736","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\/31736","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=31736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31737,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31736\/revisions\/31737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}