{"id":33144,"date":"2021-06-16T13:45:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T04:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/16\/high-in-the-himalayas-villagers-hit-by-covid-are-left-to-fend-for-themselves"},"modified":"2021-06-16T13:45:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T04:45:20","slug":"high-in-the-himalayas-villagers-hit-by-covid-are-left-to-fend-for-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33144","title":{"rendered":"High in the Himalayas, villagers hit by Covid are left to fend for themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In India\u2019s remote peaks, the pandemic\u2019s toll is worsened by lack of medical facilities, roads and information<\/p>\n<p>Phalguni Devi has spent a fortnight living in a cattle shed. Looking out on a rainy afternoon in early June, she worries that if the rain does not let up, her fever-like symptoms will worsen.<\/p>\n<p>Devi, 51, shares the shed with a cow and two cats, and this has taken its toll. Herbal concoctions have not worked and the visit to a pharmacist in the nearest town, in the Nijmola valley in the Himalayas, which took an entire day, did not help.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/16\/high-in-the-himalayas-villagers-hit-by-covid-are-left-to-fend-for-themselves\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In India\u2019s remote peaks, the pandemic\u2019s toll is worsened by lack of medical facilities, roads and informationPhalguni Devi has spent a fortnight living in a cattle shed. Looking out on a rainy afternoon in early June, she worries that if the rain does &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2261,"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":[1066,59,566,346,62,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-health","category-india","category-society","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\/33144","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\/2261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33173,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33144\/revisions\/33173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}