{"id":3207,"date":"2022-01-02T19:58:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T14:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=3207"},"modified":"2022-01-02T19:58:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T14:58:56","slug":"covid-19-cases-in-india-spike-for-fifth-consecutive-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/asia\/covid-19-cases-in-india-spike-for-fifth-consecutive-day\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 cases in India spike for fifth consecutive day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Jan 2 (Asia Free Press): India has reported more than 27,000 fresh COVID-19 cases on Sunday, with infections sharply rising for a fifth day straight, but the chief minister of the capital New Delhi has said there was no need to panic, citing low hospitalisation rates, reported Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country&#8217;s largest cities, including Delhi and the financial capital Mumbai, have seen a recent spike in COVID-19 cases, including those of the Omicron variant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the number of active cases in Delhi has tripled in just the last three days, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that hospitalisations had not gone up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This means that most people who are coming down with (COVID-19) do not require hospital care. They are mild cases,&#8221; Kejriwal said during a video briefing.<br>&#8220;Cases are going up but there is no reason to worry. There is no need to panic,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Delhi was among hardest hit cities during the second wave of the pandemic in India last year, with hospitals running out of beds and life-saving oxygen, leaving patients gasping for breath.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Jan 2 (Asia Free Press): India has reported more than 27,000 fresh COVID-19 cases on Sunday, with infections sharply rising for a fifth day straight, but the chief minister of the capital New Delhi has said there was no need to panic, citing low hospitalisation rates, reported Reuters. The country&#8217;s largest cities, including [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,84,396],"tags":[294,64,1633,1632,1188],"class_list":["post-3207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-india","category-latest","tag-covid-19","tag-india","tag-mumbai","tag-new-delhi","tag-omicron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}