{"id":322026,"date":"2020-04-11T03:55:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T03:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322026"},"modified":"2020-04-11T03:55:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T03:55:58","slug":"coronavirus-cases-in-india-rise-to-7447-death-toll-touches-239","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/coronavirus-cases-in-india-rise-to-7447-death-toll-touches-239\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus cases in India rise to 7447, death toll touches 239"},"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 COVID-19 cases in India rose to 7447 with 239 deaths. There are 6565 active cases and 642 have been cured\/discharged, the Health Ministry said on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Maharashtra has highest number of cases \u2013 1574, followed by Tamil Nadu -911, Delhi \u2013 903, Rajasthan \u2013 553.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Telangana has recorded 473 cases and in Uttar Pradesh cases have risen to 431.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The worldwide death toll from the novel coronavirus has surged past 100,000, with confirmed infections reaching 1.7 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Italy has recorded highest number of COVID-19 deaths, followed by USA, Spain and France.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte extended a nationwide lockdown until May 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian Government is taking several steps along with the States\/UTs for the prevention, containment and management of COVID-19 in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan held a video conference to review actions and preparedness for COVID-19 management through Video Conference (VC), with Health Ministers, Chief Secretaries\/Health Secretaries of all States and UTs on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of COVID-19 cases in India rose to 7447 with 239 deaths. There are 6565 active cases and 642 have been cured\/discharged, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. Maharashtra has highest number of cases \u2013 1574, followed by Tamil Nadu -911, Delhi \u2013 903, Rajasthan \u2013 553. Telangana has recorded 473 cases and in [&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\/322026"}],"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=322026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322027,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322026\/revisions\/322027"}],"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=322026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}