{"id":413207,"date":"2021-05-03T10:58:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T05:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=413207"},"modified":"2021-05-03T11:45:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T06:15:43","slug":"covid-infects-atc-power-grid-ops-as-staff-kin-fall-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-infects-atc-power-grid-ops-as-staff-kin-fall-sick\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid infects ATC, power grid ops as staff, kin fall sick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At last count, nearly one in every five air traffic controllers at Delhi\u2019s Indira Gandhi International Airport \u2014 the country\u2019s largest \u2014 was out of action, either directly or indirectly affected by Covid-19. Officials at POSOCO \u2014 India\u2019s electricity grid manager \u2014 have alluded to a \u201cworrying shortage\u201d of operators, including those manning some control rooms. These are some of the critical infrastructure operations that could be potentially at risk from the second surge that the country is witnessing. <\/p>\n<p>According to Health Ministry data, as of Sunday morning, there were 33,49,644 active Covid cases in India, an increase of 80,934 over the previous day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last count, nearly one in every five air traffic controllers at Delhi\u2019s Indira Gandhi International Airport \u2014 the country\u2019s largest \u2014 was out of action, either directly or indirectly affected by Covid-19. Officials at POSOCO \u2014 India\u2019s electricity grid manager \u2014 have alluded to a \u201cworrying shortage\u201d of operators, including those manning some control rooms. These are some of the critical infrastructure operations that could be potentially at risk from the second surge that the country is witnessing. According to Health Ministry data, as of Sunday morning, there were 33,49,644 active Covid cases in India, an increase of 80,934 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}