{"id":40328,"date":"2022-01-05T15:36:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T06:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/05\/omicron-fuels-india-third-wave-as-mumbai-prepares-for-tsunami-of-cases"},"modified":"2022-01-05T15:36:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T06:36:47","slug":"omicron-fuels-india-third-wave-as-mumbai-prepares-for-tsunami-of-covid-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40328","title":{"rendered":"Omicron fuels India third wave as Mumbai prepares for \u2018tsunami\u2019 of Covid cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are hopes this outbreak will not be as deadly as the devastating wave in April 2021, which saw crematoriums overwhelmed<\/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 is in the midst of a Covid third wave, officials have said, as the spread of Omicron has led to a doubling of cases in recent days and curfews being imposed on cities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndia is clearly in the third wave of Covid-19, and the whole thing seems driven by Omicron,\u201d said Dr N K Arora, chairman of the Covid-19 working group of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation, who cited the \u201cgalloping increase\u201d of cases seen over the past week as evidence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/05\/omicron-fuels-india-third-wave-as-mumbai-prepares-for-tsunami-of-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are hopes this outbreak will not be as deadly as the devastating wave in April 2021, which saw crematoriums overwhelmedCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia is in the midst of a Covid third wave, officials have said, a&#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":[1066,62,914,299,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","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\/40328","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=40328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40329,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40328\/revisions\/40329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}