{"id":324299,"date":"2020-06-29T03:57:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T03:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324299"},"modified":"2020-06-29T03:57:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T03:57:41","slug":"covid-19-cases-in-india-rise-to-548318-death-toll-at-16475","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/covid-19-cases-in-india-rise-to-548318-death-toll-at-16475\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 cases in India rise to 5,48,318; Death toll at 16,475"},"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\" \/>The number of coronavirus cases in India have risen to 5,48,318 as it recorded 19,459 fresh infections in the last 24 hours. A total of 16,475 coronavirus patients have lost their lives, the Union 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;\">There are 2,10,120 active cases while 3,21,722 have been cured\/discharged, according to Health Ministry data.<\/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 1,64,626 with\u00a07,429 fatalities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi has the second highest COVID-19 cases \u2013 83,077 with 2,623 deaths, followed by Tamil Nadu \u2013 82,275 cases and 1,079 deaths,\u00a0Gujarat \u2013 31,320 cases and\u00a01,808 fatalities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A total of 83,98,362 samples have been tested so far of which 1,70,560 samples have been tested in the last 24 hours, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of coronavirus cases in India have risen to 5,48,318 as it recorded 19,459 fresh infections in the last 24 hours. A total of 16,475 coronavirus patients have lost their lives, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday. There are 2,10,120 active cases while 3,21,722 have been cured\/discharged, according to Health Ministry data. Maharashtra [&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\/324299"}],"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=324299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324300,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324299\/revisions\/324300"}],"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=324299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}