{"id":323016,"date":"2020-05-06T04:31:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T04:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323016"},"modified":"2020-05-06T04:35:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T04:35:09","slug":"indias-covid-19-cases-cross-49000-mark-death-toll-at-1694","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/indias-covid-19-cases-cross-49000-mark-death-toll-at-1694\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s COVID-19 cases cross 49,000-mark, Death toll at 1,694"},"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\" \/>COVID-19 cases in India has risen to 49,391 with 1,694 deaths. There are 33,514 active cases while 14,182 have been cured\/discharged, the Health Ministry said 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 15,525, followed by Gujarat \u2013 6,245, Delhi \u2013 5,104, Tamil Nadu \u2013 4,058, Rajasthan \u2013 3,158, Madhya Pradesh \u2013 3,049 and Uttar Pradesh \u2013 2,880.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi yesterday chaired a meeting of the Task Force on Corona Vaccine Development, Drug Discovery, Diagnosis and Testing<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The PM took a detailed review of the current status of India\u2019s efforts in vaccine development, drug discovery, diagnosis and testing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The novel coronavirus cases have crossed 3.7 million mark globally with over 2,50,000 deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 cases in India has risen to 49,391 with 1,694 deaths. There are 33,514 active cases while 14,182 have been cured\/discharged, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday. Maharashtra has highest COVID-19 cases \u2013 15,525, followed by Gujarat \u2013 6,245, Delhi \u2013 5,104, Tamil Nadu \u2013 4,058, Rajasthan \u2013 3,158, Madhya Pradesh \u2013 3,049 and Uttar [&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\/323016"}],"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=323016"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323019,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323016\/revisions\/323019"}],"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=323016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}