{"id":323880,"date":"2020-06-12T04:22:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T04:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323880"},"modified":"2020-06-12T04:22:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T04:22:15","slug":"covid-19-cases-in-india-rise-to-297535-death-toll-at-8498","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/covid-19-cases-in-india-rise-to-297535-death-toll-at-8498\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 cases in India rise to 2,97,535, Death toll at 8,498"},"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 has so far registered 2,97,535 COVID-19 cases with 8,498 fatalities. There are 1,41,842 active cases while 1,47,194 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;\">India has now taken the fourth spot in the list of nations worst hit by COVID-19.<\/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 risen to 97,648 with\u00a03,590 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\u00a038,716 Covid-19 cases and 349 deaths, followed by Delhi with 34,687 cases and 1,085 deaths,\u00a0Gujarat \u2013 22,032 cases and\u00a01,385 fatalities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A total of 53,63,445 samples have been tested as on June 12, of which 1,50,305 samples have been tested in last 24 hours, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has so far registered 2,97,535 COVID-19 cases with 8,498 fatalities. There are 1,41,842 active cases while 1,47,194 have been cured\/discharged, the Health Ministry said on Friday. India has now taken the fourth spot in the list of nations worst hit by COVID-19. Maharashtra remains the worst affected state in the country. The total number [&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\/323880"}],"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=323880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323881,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323880\/revisions\/323881"}],"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=323880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}