{"id":322411,"date":"2020-04-19T04:48:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T04:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322411"},"modified":"2020-04-19T04:52:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T04:52:59","slug":"covid-19-cases-in-india-rise-to-15712-death-toll-at-507","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/covid-19-cases-in-india-rise-to-15712-death-toll-at-507\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 cases in India rise to 15,712, Death toll at 507"},"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\" \/>Coronavirus cases in India rose to 15,712 with 507 fatalities. There are 12,974 active cases while 2,230 have been cured\/discharged, the Health Ministry said on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Maharashtra has highest COVID-19 cases \u2013 3,651, followed by Delhi \u2013 1,893, Madhya Pradesh \u2013 1,407, Gujarat \u2013 1,376, Tamil Nadu \u2013 1,372 and Rajasthan \u2013 1,351.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday chaired a review meeting on MHA Control Room operations set up to fight the COVID-19 epidemic, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shah reviewed COVID-19 situation in various States with the officers of the control room, took their views and appreciated the exemplary work done by them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The MHA control room is working 24*7 and not only coordinating with States but also with various ministries of the central government, to fight the epidemic, as per the official release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The COVID-19 pandemic has infected over 2 million people globally and more than 1,60,000 people have lost their lives.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coronavirus cases in India rose to 15,712 with 507 fatalities. There are 12,974 active cases while 2,230 have been cured\/discharged, the Health Ministry said on Sunday. Maharashtra has highest COVID-19 cases \u2013 3,651, followed by Delhi \u2013 1,893, Madhya Pradesh \u2013 1,407, Gujarat \u2013 1,376, Tamil Nadu \u2013 1,372 and Rajasthan \u2013 1,351. Union Home [&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\/322411"}],"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=322411"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322416,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322411\/revisions\/322416"}],"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=322411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}