{"id":323788,"date":"2020-06-07T04:17:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T04:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323788"},"modified":"2020-06-09T04:22:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T04:22:01","slug":"covid-19-cases-in-india-rise-to-246628-death-toll-at-6929","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/covid-19-cases-in-india-rise-to-246628-death-toll-at-6929\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 cases in India rise to 2,46,628, Death toll at 6,929"},"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-321750 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/24a-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"886\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/24a-1.jpg 886w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/24a-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/24a-1-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/24a-1-696x466.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/24a-1-628x420.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 886px) 100vw, 886px\" \/>India\u2019s COVID-19 cases has risen to 2,46,628 with 6,929 fatalities. There are 1,20,406 active cases while 1,19,292 have been cured\/discharged, the Health Ministry said on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Maharashtra remains the worst affected state in the country. The total number of COVID-19 cases has jumped to 82,968 with\u00a02,969 fatalities, according to Health Ministry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Tamil Nadu continues to be the\u00a0second-worst hit state with\u00a030,152 Covid-19 cases and 251 deaths, followed by Delhi with 27,654 cases and 761 deaths,\u00a0Gujarat \u2013 19,592 cases and\u00a01,219 fatalities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A total of 46,66,386 samples have been tested as on June 7, of which 1,42,069 samples have been tested in last 24 hours, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s COVID-19 cases has risen to 2,46,628 with 6,929 fatalities. There are 1,20,406 active cases while 1,19,292 have been cured\/discharged, the Health Ministry said on Sunday. Maharashtra remains the worst affected state in the country. The total number of COVID-19 cases has jumped to 82,968 with\u00a02,969 fatalities, according to Health Ministry. Tamil Nadu continues to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321750,"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\/323788"}],"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=323788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323825,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323788\/revisions\/323825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}