{"id":31774,"date":"2021-05-05T21:45:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T12:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/05\/indias-neighbours-close-borders-as-covid-wave-spreads-across-region"},"modified":"2021-05-05T21:45:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T12:45:14","slug":"indias-neighbours-close-borders-as-covid-wave-spreads-across-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31774","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s neighbours close borders as Covid wave spreads across region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal has been hardest hit to date, while concerns are growing in Pakistan and Bangladesh<\/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>In April, along with millions of other people, Nepal\u2019s former king Gyanendra Shah, 73, and his 70-year-old wife, Komal, travelled to India for the Kumbh Mela religious festival. There he took a holy dip in the Ganges at Hardiwar and interacted maskless with officials, <em>sadhus<\/em> and other pilgrims.<\/p>\n<p>On their return to Kathmandu\u2019s airport, hundreds gathered to welcome the couple, who within a handful of days would test positive for Covid-19. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/05\/indias-neighbours-close-borders-as-covid-wave-spreads-across-region\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal has been hardest hit to date, while concerns are growing in Pakistan and BangladeshCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIn April, along with millions of other people, Nepal\u2019s former king Gyanendra Shah, 73, and his 70-year-&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2161,"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":[327,1066,62,241,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-nepal","category-pakistan","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\/31774","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\/2161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31775,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31774\/revisions\/31775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}