{"id":323513,"date":"2020-05-28T04:43:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T04:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323513"},"modified":"2020-05-29T04:25:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T04:25:13","slug":"indias-covid-19-cases-rise-to-158333-death-toll-at-4531","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/indias-covid-19-cases-rise-to-158333-death-toll-at-4531\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s COVID-19 cases rise to 1,58,333, Death toll at 4,531"},"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\" \/>India has so far registered 1,58,333 COVID-19 cases with 4,531 fatalities. There are 86,110 active cases while 67,691 have been cured\/discharged, the Health Ministry said on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Maharashtra has highest number of COVID-19 cases \u2013 56,948, followed by Tamil Nadu \u2013 18,545, Delhi \u2013 15,257 and Gujarat \u2013 15,195.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Health Ministry on Wednesday said that lockdown has garnered multiple gains, and primarily among them is that it has decelerated the pace of spread of the disease. According to the estimates made by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, a large number of deaths and cases have been averted. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At the same time, during the lockdown period development of COVID-19 specific health infrastructure; capacity development of human resource through online training modules and webinars; increased testing capacity; increase in supplies, equipment, oxygen; issuing of relevant guidelines, standards prepared, circulated, adopted, practiced; development of diagnostics, drug trials, vaccine research; and on the technical side surveillance systems strengthened with more contact tracing, house to house surveys along with tools like Aarogya Setu was achieved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has so far registered 1,58,333 COVID-19 cases with 4,531 fatalities. There are 86,110 active cases while 67,691 have been cured\/discharged, the Health Ministry said on Thursday. Maharashtra has highest number of COVID-19 cases \u2013 56,948, followed by Tamil Nadu \u2013 18,545, Delhi \u2013 15,257 and Gujarat \u2013 15,195. The Health Ministry on Wednesday said [&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\/323513"}],"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=323513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323531,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323513\/revisions\/323531"}],"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=323513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}