{"id":323893,"date":"2020-06-13T04:45:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T04:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323893"},"modified":"2020-06-13T05:52:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T05:52:54","slug":"indias-covid-19-cases-rise-to-308993-death-toll-at-8884","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/indias-covid-19-cases-rise-to-308993-death-toll-at-8884\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s COVID-19 cases rise to 3,08,993, Death toll at 8884"},"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 3,08,993 COVID-19 cases with 8,884 fatalities. There are 1,45,779 active cases while 1,54,329 have been cured\/discharged, the Health Ministry said on Saturday.<\/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 1,01141 with\u00a03,717 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\u00a040,698 Covid-19 cases and 367 deaths, followed by Delhi with 36,824 cases and 1,214 deaths,\u00a0Gujarat \u2013 22,527 cases and\u00a01,415 fatalities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A total of 55,07,182 samples have been tested as on June 13, of which 1,43,737 samples have been tested in last 24 hours, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has so far registered 3,08,993 COVID-19 cases with 8,884 fatalities. There are 1,45,779 active cases while 1,54,329 have been cured\/discharged, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. Maharashtra remains the worst affected state in the country. The total number of COVID-19 cases has risen to 1,01141 with\u00a03,717 fatalities, according to Health Ministry. Tamil Nadu continues [&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\/323893"}],"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=323893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323899,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323893\/revisions\/323899"}],"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=323893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}