{"id":31798,"date":"2021-05-06T20:21:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T11:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/06\/nepal-facing-human-catastrophe-similar-to-india-amid-rampant-covid-surge"},"modified":"2021-05-06T20:21:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T11:21:39","slug":"nepal-facing-human-catastrophe-similar-to-indias-amid-rampant-covid-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31798","title":{"rendered":"Nepal facing \u2018human catastrophe\u2019 similar to India\u2019s amid rampant Covid surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country appeals for international help amid vaccine shortage, overrun hospitals and reported 47% positivity rate<\/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>Nepal is struggling to contain an explosion in Covid-19 cases, as fears grow that the situation in the Himalayan country may be as bad, if not worse, than in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/06\/covid-third-wave-inevitable-in-india-say-health-experts\">neighbouring India<\/a>, with which it shares a long and porous border.<\/p>\n<p>Following warnings by health officials earlier this week that the country was on the brink of losing control of its outbreak, Nepal has appealed for urgent international help.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/06\/nepal-facing-human-catastrophe-similar-to-india-amid-rampant-covid-surge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country appeals for international help amid vaccine shortage, overrun hospitals and reported 47% positivity rateCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNepal is struggling to contain an explosion in Covid-19 cases, as fears grow tha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"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":[1066,346,62,241,61,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-india","category-nepal","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\/31798","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\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31817,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31798\/revisions\/31817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}