{"id":321479,"date":"2020-03-25T05:31:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T05:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321479"},"modified":"2020-03-25T06:07:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T06:07:03","slug":"coronavirus-cases-in-india-rise-to-562","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/coronavirus-cases-in-india-rise-to-562\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus cases in India rise to 562"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_319524\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-319524\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-319524\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/virus-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/virus-3.jpg 678w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/virus-3-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/virus-3-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/virus-3-615x420.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-319524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational Imge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The number of coronavirus cases in India has risen to 562, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday called for a complete lockdown of the entire nation for the next 21 days in an effort to contain the COVID-19 Pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi said that even those nations with the best of the medical facilities could not contain the virus and that the social distancing is the only option to mitigate it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A 54-year-old man passed away in Tamil Nadu after contracting Covid-19, Health Minister C Vijayabaskar said on Wednesday, the first death recorded in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A Pune-based couple, the first COVID-19 patients in Maharashtra, have twice tested negative for the deadly disease and are set to be discharged from hospital, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Tokyo Olympics which was scheduled to be held from July 24, 2020 has been postponed to no later than summer 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President of International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Beach and Japan Prime Minister Abe Shinzo held a conference call to discuss the constantly changing environment with regard to COVID-19 and the Olympic games Tokyo 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of coronavirus cases in India has risen to 562, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday called for a complete lockdown of the entire nation for the next 21 days in an effort to contain the COVID-19 Pandemic. PM Modi said that even those nations with the best of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319524,"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\/321479"}],"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=321479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321482,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321479\/revisions\/321482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}