{"id":322006,"date":"2020-04-10T03:38:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T03:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322006"},"modified":"2020-04-10T03:38:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T03:38:30","slug":"coronavirus-cases-in-india-climb-to-6412-death-toll-touches-199","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/coronavirus-cases-in-india-climb-to-6412-death-toll-touches-199\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus cases in India climb to 6412, death toll touches 199"},"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-321788 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/virus-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus-3.jpg 672w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus-3-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus-3-527x420.jpg 527w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/>The number of COVID-19 cases in India has risen to 6412, with 199 fatalities. There are 5709 active cases and 503 people have been cured\/discharged, according to Health Ministry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Maharashtra has recorded highest number of cases \u2013 1364, followed by Tamil Nadu \u2013 834, Delhi \u2013 720 and Rajasthan \u2013 463.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The cases have risen to 442 in Telangana while Uttar Pradesh has 410 cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A high-level meeting of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on COVID-19 was held yesterday under the chairpersonship of Dr Harsh Vardhan. The Group of Ministers had detailed deliberation on containment and management of COVID-19. GoM also deliberated on the adequacy on PPEs, N-95 masks and ventilators. GoM was apprised that 30 indigenous manufacturers for PPEs have been developed, 1.7 Cr order for PPEs have been placed and the supply has already started, and 49,000 orders for ventilators have been placed, according to official release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">GoM also reviewed the testing strategy and availability of testing kits across the country along with the strategy for hotspots and cluster management.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of COVID-19 cases in India has risen to 6412, with 199 fatalities. There are 5709 active cases and 503 people have been cured\/discharged, according to Health Ministry. Maharashtra has recorded highest number of cases \u2013 1364, followed by Tamil Nadu \u2013 834, Delhi \u2013 720 and Rajasthan \u2013 463. The cases have risen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321788,"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\/322006"}],"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=322006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322007,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322006\/revisions\/322007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}