{"id":323805,"date":"2020-06-08T04:32:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T04:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323805"},"modified":"2020-06-09T04:21:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T04:21:29","slug":"coronavirus-cases-in-india-rise-to-256611-death-toll-at-7135","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/coronavirus-cases-in-india-rise-to-256611-death-toll-at-7135\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus cases in India rise to 2,56,611, Death toll at 7,135"},"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-319632 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/virus-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/virus-1.jpg 503w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/virus-1-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/virus-1-434x420.jpg 434w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/>India\u2019s COVID-19 cases has risen to 2,56,611 with 7,135 fatalities. There are 1,25,381 active cases while 1,24,094 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 remains the worst affected state in the country. The total number of COVID-19 cases has jumped to 85,975 with\u00a03,060 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\u00a031,667 Covid-19 cases and 269 deaths, followed by Delhi with 27,654 cases and 761 deaths,\u00a0Gujarat \u2013 20,070 cases and\u00a01,249 fatalities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A total of 47,74,434 samples have been tested as on June 8, of which 1,08,048 samples have been tested in last 24 hours, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Several religious places across the country reopened today after being shut for over two months due to COVID-19 lockdown.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s COVID-19 cases has risen to 2,56,611 with 7,135 fatalities. There are 1,25,381 active cases while 1,24,094 have been cured\/discharged, the Health Ministry said on Monday. Maharashtra remains the worst affected state in the country. The total number of COVID-19 cases has jumped to 85,975 with\u00a03,060 fatalities, according to Health Ministry. Tamil Nadu continues to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319632,"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\/323805"}],"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=323805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323824,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323805\/revisions\/323824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}