{"id":38984,"date":"2021-11-16T22:40:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T13:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/16\/soaring-pollution-has-delhi-considering-full-weekend-lockdown"},"modified":"2021-11-16T22:40:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T13:40:14","slug":"soaring-pollution-has-delhi-considering-full-weekend-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38984","title":{"rendered":"Soaring pollution has Delhi considering full weekend lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Thick smog envelops Indian capital with pollution levels 20 times higher than   deemed healthy by WHO<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s capital, Delhi, and several surrounding states have shut schools, imposed work-from-home orders and a full weekend lockdown of the city is being contemplated in an attempt to tackle the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/sep\/22\/who-cuts-guideline-limits-on-air-pollution-from-fossil-fuels\">deadly levels<\/a> of pollution that have yet again enveloped the region.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past weeks, in what has become a dreaded seasonal occurrence, Delhi has suffered pollution levels 20 times higher than the levels deemed healthy by the World Health Organization and a thick brown smog settled over the city.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/16\/soaring-pollution-has-delhi-considering-full-weekend-lockdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Thick smog envelops Indian capital with pollution levels 20 times higher than   deemed healthy by WHOIndia\u2019s capital, Delhi, and several surrounding states have shut schools, imposed work-from-home orders and a full weekend lockdown of the city is bei&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"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":[722,65,62,466,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-pollution","category-environment","category-india","category-pollution","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\/38984","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38985,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38984\/revisions\/38985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}