{"id":321845,"date":"2020-04-03T05:45:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T05:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321845"},"modified":"2020-04-03T05:45:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T05:45:38","slug":"india-reports-2301-covid-19-cases-death-toll-touches-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-reports-2301-covid-19-cases-death-toll-touches-56\/","title":{"rendered":"India reports 2301 COVID-19 cases, death toll touches 56"},"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 confirmed cases in India have risen to 2301 with 56 fatalities. There are now 2088 active cases and 157 have been cured\/discharged, Heath Ministry said on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi today appealed all Indians to switch off all the lights of their houses on April 5 at 9pm for 9 minutes, and just light a candle, lamps or mobile&#8217;s flashlight, to mark the country&#8217;s fight against COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He said people should maintain social distancing and not form groups while lighting up lamps or candles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">More than one million people have been infected by COVID-19 worldwide and over 52000 have lost their lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of confirmed cases in India have risen to 2301 with 56 fatalities. There are now 2088 active cases and 157 have been cured\/discharged, Heath Ministry said on Friday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi today appealed all Indians to switch off all the lights of their houses on April 5 at 9pm for 9 minutes, [&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\/321845"}],"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=321845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321846,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321845\/revisions\/321846"}],"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=321845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}