{"id":322495,"date":"2020-04-22T04:30:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T04:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322495"},"modified":"2020-04-22T04:30:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T04:30:24","slug":"indias-coronavirus-cases-jump-to-19984-death-toll-at-640","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/indias-coronavirus-cases-jump-to-19984-death-toll-at-640\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s coronavirus cases jump to 19,984, Death toll at 640"},"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\" \/>Coronavirus cases in India has risen to 19,984 with 640 fatalities. There are 15,474 active cases while 3,869 have been cured\/discharged, the Health Ministry on Wednesday.<\/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 5,218, followed by Gujarat \u2013 2,178, Delhi \u2013 2,156, Rajasthan \u2013 1,659 and Tamil Nadu \u2013 1,596.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair a meeting with ministers today on COVID19 response in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) yesterday asked states to not to use the new Rapid Testing Kits for coronavirus for two days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Union Government has directed Government of West Bengal not to obstruct working of Central Teams reg. review and on-spot assessment of implementation of Lockdown measures to fight COVID19 in the State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the official statement, it had been brought to the notice of MHA that both the Inter-Ministerial Central Teams (IMCTs), at Kolkata and Jalpaiguri respectively, have not been provided with the requisite co-operation by the State and local authorities. It was informed that they have been specifically restrained from making any visits, interacting with health professionals, and assessing the ground level situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The novel coronavirus has infected over 2.5 million people while over 1,70,000 people have lost their lives.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coronavirus cases in India has risen to 19,984 with 640 fatalities. There are 15,474 active cases while 3,869 have been cured\/discharged, the Health Ministry on Wednesday. Maharashtra has highest COVID-19 cases \u2013 5,218, followed by Gujarat \u2013 2,178, Delhi \u2013 2,156, Rajasthan \u2013 1,659 and Tamil Nadu \u2013 1,596. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair [&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\/322495"}],"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=322495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322496,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322495\/revisions\/322496"}],"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=322495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}