{"id":323496,"date":"2020-05-27T03:52:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T03:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323496"},"modified":"2020-05-27T03:52:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T03:52:46","slug":"global-covid-19-count-tops-5-4-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/global-covid-19-count-tops-5-4-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Global COVID-19 count tops 5.4 million"},"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-321998 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cvirus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/cvirus.jpg 643w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/cvirus-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/>The novel coronavirus cases surpassed 5.4 million mark globally, with over 3.4 lakh fatalities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 worldwide has increased by nearly 100,000 over the past 24 hours to surpass 5.4 million, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The United States continued to be the worst hit nation by the pandemic with maximum number of cases. As per the latest tally, US has reported over 1.7 million COVID-19 cases with nearly 100,000 deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Brazil has the second-highest number of cases followed by Russia, UK, Spain and Italy.<\/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 in China\u2019s Wuhan has spread to at least 210 countries.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The novel coronavirus cases surpassed 5.4 million mark globally, with over 3.4 lakh fatalities. The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 worldwide has increased by nearly 100,000 over the past 24 hours to surpass 5.4 million, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. The United States continued to be the worst hit nation by the pandemic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[12470],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323496"}],"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=323496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323497,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323496\/revisions\/323497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}