{"id":322923,"date":"2020-05-03T04:39:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T04:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322923"},"modified":"2020-05-03T04:39:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T04:39:53","slug":"indias-covid-19-cases-rise-to-39980-death-toll-at-1301","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/indias-covid-19-cases-rise-to-39980-death-toll-at-1301\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s COVID-19 cases rise to 39,980, Death toll at 1,301"},"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\" \/>COVID-19 cases in India has risen to 39,980 with 1,301 fatalities. There are 28,046 active cases while 10,632 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 12,296, followed by Gujarat \u2013 5,054, Delhi \u2013 4,122, Madhya Pradesh \u2013 2,846 and Rajasthan \u2013 2,770.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Modi held a meeting to discuss strategies to discuss interventions in the financial sector as well structural reforms to spur growth and welfare in the current context.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At a meeting with Finance Minister and officials, PM discussed strategies and interventions to support MSMEs and farmers, enhance liquidity and strengthen credit flows.\u00a0 PM also discussed ways and means to ensure financial stability in the wake of COVID-19 and measures taken to enable businesses to recover quickly from the impacts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The virus which was first originated from China\u2019s Wuhan has infected more than 30 lakh people globally and over 2 lakh people have lost their lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 cases in India has risen to 39,980 with 1,301 fatalities. There are 28,046 active cases while 10,632 have been cured\/discharged, the Health Ministry said on Sunday. Maharashtra has highest COVID-19 cases \u2013 12,296, followed by Gujarat \u2013 5,054, Delhi \u2013 4,122, Madhya Pradesh \u2013 2,846 and Rajasthan \u2013 2,770. Prime Minister Modi held a [&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\/322923"}],"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=322923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322924,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322923\/revisions\/322924"}],"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=322923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}