{"id":113332,"date":"2021-04-07T16:13:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T23:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=113332"},"modified":"2021-04-07T16:13:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T23:13:15","slug":"next-four-weeks-very-very-critical-for-india-in-covid-19-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/04\/07\/next-four-weeks-very-very-critical-for-india-in-covid-19-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Next four weeks \u2018very, very critical\u2019 for India in COVID-19 battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>New Delhi, April 7 (Reuters) \u2013 India\u2019s fight against COVID-19 over the next four weeks will be very, very critical\u201d as its faces a faster second surge in infections, senior government health official Vinod Kumar Paul said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India\u2019s daily infections passed the 100,000 mark for the first time on Monday, data from the health ministry showed. It recorded 96,982 new cases on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Indian capital of New Delhi on Tuesday imposed a night-time curfew until April 30 with much of the country struggling to contain a second surge in coronavirus infections that has eclipsed the first wave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pandemic has worsened in the country\u2026There is a serious rise in cases,\u201d Paul told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India, the world\u2019s second most populous country with 1.35 billion people, has administered 80.9 million vaccine doses, the most after the United States and China, but it lags far behind in immunisations per capita.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Healthcare and similar frontline workers as well as people over 60 have been the main recipients of vaccinations so far. Inoculations of people above 45 began only on April 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Delhi authorities launched the 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew a day after India surpassed the grim milestone of 100,000 new daily infections for the first time. The curfew echoes tough restrictions in Maharashtra, the country\u2019s hardest-hit state where the financial capital Mumbai is also located.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia New Delhi, April 7 (Reuters) \u2013 India\u2019s fight against COVID-19 over the next four weeks will be very, very critical\u201d as its faces a faster second surge in infections, senior government health official Vinod Kumar Paul said on Tuesday. India\u2019s daily infections passed the 100,000 mark for the first time on Monday, data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category--19-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}