{"id":321364,"date":"2020-03-22T06:04:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T06:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321364"},"modified":"2020-03-22T06:07:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T06:07:21","slug":"indias-coronavirus-cases-rise-to-324-health-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/indias-coronavirus-cases-rise-to-324-health-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Coronavirus cases rise to 324: Health Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-319336 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/cornavirus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"583\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/cornavirus.jpg 583w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/cornavirus-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/cornavirus-522x420.jpg 522w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/>The number of coronavirus cases in India has risen to 324, the health ministry has confirmed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Maharashtra has the highest number of cases, followed by Kerala, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As the number of cases continued to increase, the country is witnessing an unprecedented shutdown following PM Modi&#8217;s appeal for a &#8216;Janta curfew&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The &#8216;Janata curfew&#8217; began at 7 am today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Modi urged people to be part of \u2018Janta Curfew\u2019, which will add tremendous strength to the fight against coronavirus threat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Punjab government has ordered complete lockdown till March 31 to stop the spread of coronavirus, an official said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Italy reported 4825 coronavirus deaths, the highest global tally even surpassing China.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of coronavirus cases in India has risen to 324, the health ministry has confirmed. Maharashtra has the highest number of cases, followed by Kerala, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. As the number of cases continued to increase, the country is witnessing an unprecedented shutdown following PM Modi&#8217;s appeal for a &#8216;Janta curfew&#8217;. The &#8216;Janata [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12470,574],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321367,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321364\/revisions\/321367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}