{"id":32200,"date":"2021-05-18T13:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T04:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/may\/18\/solar-industry-pioneer-govind-kant-47-the-second-australian-to-die-of-covid-in-india"},"modified":"2021-05-18T13:00:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T04:00:51","slug":"solar-industry-pioneer-govind-kant-47-the-second-australian-to-die-of-covid-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32200","title":{"rendered":"Solar industry pioneer Govind Kant, 47, the second Australian to die of Covid in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trina Solar says its assistant director for Australia died on 16 May at a hospital in Delhi<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/may\/17\/virgin-boss-says-australias-borders-should-reopen-sooner-than-mid-2022-even-though-some-people-may-die\">Virgin boss says Australia\u2019s borders should reopen sooner than mid-2022 even though \u2018some people may die\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/may\/17\/call-for-medevac-style-repatriation-flights-for-australians-with-covid-from-india\">Call for medevac-style repatriation flights for Australians from India<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2021\/may\/18\/australia-news-live-business-sector-reopen-borders-covid-coronavirus-scott-morisson-anthony-albanese-vaccines\">Follow the Australia live blog<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Sydney father of two has died of Covid in India after becoming stuck in the country when he visited family following the death of his mother.<\/p>\n<p>Govind Kant, who has been described as a \u201cstalwart\u201d of Australia\u2019s solar industry, reportedly died in a Delhi hospital on Sunday, after contracting Covid-19 at the end of April.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/may\/18\/solar-industry-pioneer-govind-kant-47-the-second-australian-to-die-of-covid-in-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trina Solar says its assistant director for Australia died on 16 May at a hospital in DelhiVirgin boss says Australia\u2019s borders should reopen sooner than mid-2022 even though \u2018some people may die\u2019Call for medevac-style repatriation flights for Australi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1472,"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":[43,324,1066,353,346,62,838,1079,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-coronavirus","category-delhi","category-health","category-india","category-northern-territory","category-qantas","category-south-and-central-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32200","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\/1472"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32201,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32200\/revisions\/32201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}