{"id":32958,"date":"2021-06-10T16:45:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T07:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/10\/covid-india-posts-global-record-deaths-after-state-revises-data"},"modified":"2021-06-10T20:05:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T11:05:27","slug":"covid-india-posts-global-record-deaths-after-state-revises-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32958","title":{"rendered":"Covid: India posts global record deaths after state revises data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India records 6,000 deaths in 24 hours, stoking suspicions death toll is much higher than reported<\/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\u2019s daily tally of coronavirus deaths has reached more than 6,000 after a single state dramatically revised its data for fatalities during the second wave, increasing fears that the country\u2019s toll is much higher than reported.<\/p>\n<p>While the daily total would be a global record for a single day, it appears that Bihar\u2019s addition of approximately 4,000 extra deaths after a court challenge accounts for deaths that occurred throughout India\u2019s devastating second wave of infections.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/10\/covid-india-posts-global-record-deaths-after-state-revises-data\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India records 6,000 deaths in 24 hours, stoking suspicions death toll is much higher than reportedCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia\u2019s daily tally of coronavirus deaths has reached more than 6,000 after a single state dra&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[1066,62,914,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","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\/32958","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32973,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32958\/revisions\/32973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}