{"id":32454,"date":"2021-05-25T14:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/may\/25\/afghanistans-doctors-braced-for-rapid-spread-of-india-covid-variant"},"modified":"2021-05-25T14:00:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T05:00:22","slug":"afghanistans-doctors-braced-for-rapid-spread-of-india-covid-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32454","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan\u2019s doctors braced for rapid spread of India Covid variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country has no testing capacity for the B.1.617.2 strain and medics are concerned about resilience of health system<\/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>Doctors in Afghanistan have expressed fears that the Covid-19 variant first discovered in India could now be spreading quickly in the country.<\/p>\n<p>At Kabul\u2019s main Covid hospital, where all 100 beds are occupied, doctors said that many critically ill patients had recently returned from India. Up to 10 people die here every day.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/may\/25\/afghanistans-doctors-braced-for-rapid-spread-of-india-covid-variant\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country has no testing capacity for the B.1.617.2 strain and medics are concerned about resilience of health systemCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDoctors in Afghanistan have expressed fears that the Covid-19 variant fir&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":684,"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":[46,1066,59,566,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-coronavirus","category-global-development","category-global-health","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\/32454","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\/684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32455,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32454\/revisions\/32455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}