{"id":323429,"date":"2020-05-22T05:16:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T05:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323429"},"modified":"2020-05-22T05:16:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T05:16:10","slug":"in-biggest-single-day-spike-india-records-over-6000-new-coronavirus-cases-tally-reaches-118447","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/in-biggest-single-day-spike-india-records-over-6000-new-coronavirus-cases-tally-reaches-118447\/","title":{"rendered":"In biggest single-day spike, India records over 6,000 new coronavirus cases, tally reaches 1,18,447"},"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-320692 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/virus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus.jpg 819w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus-768x418.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus-696x379.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus-771x420.jpg 771w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/>COVID-19 cases in India has risen to 1,18,447, with 3,583 fatalities. There are 66,330 active cases while 48,533 have been cured\/discharged, the Health Ministry said on Friday.<\/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 41,642, followed by Tamil Nadu \u2013 13,967, Gujarat \u2013 12,905 and Delhi \u2013 11,659.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The health ministry on Thursday said the case mortality rate in India is 3.06%, which is much lesser in comparison to the global case mortality rate of 6.65%. This brings into focus our efforts towards timely case identification and proper clinical management of the cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAn analysis of the deaths indicates 64% deaths in males &amp; 36% in females. In terms of age distribution, it is observed that 0.5% deaths are reported in less than 15 years age group, 2.5% in 15-30 years age group, 11.4% in 30-45 years age group, 35.1% in 45-60 years age group and 50.5% in people above 60 years. Further, 73% of the death cases had underlying co-morbidities. Elderly people (above 60 years of age) and people having co-morbidities are identified as high-risk groups for COVID-19,\u201d the Ministry said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 cases in India has risen to 1,18,447, with 3,583 fatalities. There are 66,330 active cases while 48,533 have been cured\/discharged, the Health Ministry said on Friday. Maharashtra has highest COVID-19 cases \u2013 41,642, followed by Tamil Nadu \u2013 13,967, Gujarat \u2013 12,905 and Delhi \u2013 11,659. The health ministry on Thursday said the case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":320692,"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\/323429"}],"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=323429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323430,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323429\/revisions\/323430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/320692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}