{"id":323259,"date":"2020-05-18T04:37:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T04:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323259"},"modified":"2020-05-18T04:37:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T04:37:03","slug":"indias-covid-19-cases-rise-to-96169-death-toll-at-3029","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/indias-covid-19-cases-rise-to-96169-death-toll-at-3029\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s COVID-19 cases rise to 96,169, Death toll at 3,029"},"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 has risen to 96,169 with 3,029 deaths. There are 56,316 active cases while 36,823 have been cured\/discharged, the Health Ministry said on Monday.<\/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 33,053, followed by Gujarat \u2013 11,379, Tamil Nadu \u2013 11,224 and Delhi \u2013 10,054.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Government of India on Sunday extended the lockdown till May 31 with new Guidelines. The new Guidelines for lockdown 4 give more power to states in making decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman yesterday announced 5th and last tranche of the special economy package under Aatmanirbhar Bharat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sitharaman detailed seven measures for providing employment, support to businesses, Ease of Doing Business, and State Governments as well sectors such as Education and Health.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coronavirus cases in India has risen to 96,169 with 3,029 deaths. There are 56,316 active cases while 36,823 have been cured\/discharged, the Health Ministry said on Monday. Maharashtra has highest COVID-19 cases \u2013 33,053, followed by Gujarat \u2013 11,379, Tamil Nadu \u2013 11,224 and Delhi \u2013 10,054. Government of India on Sunday extended the lockdown [&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\/323259"}],"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=323259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323260,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323259\/revisions\/323260"}],"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=323259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}