{"id":324507,"date":"2020-07-07T04:29:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T04:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324507"},"modified":"2020-07-07T04:29:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T04:29:52","slug":"indias-covid-19-cases-rise-to-719665-death-toll-at-20160","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/indias-covid-19-cases-rise-to-719665-death-toll-at-20160\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s COVID-19 cases rise to 7,19,665; Death toll at 20,160"},"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\" \/>The number of coronavirus cases in India have risen to 7,19,665 as it recorded 22,252 fresh infections in the last 24 hours. A total of 20,160 coronavirus patients have lost their lives, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">There are 2,59,557 active cases while 4,39,947 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 211987 with\u00a09,026 fatalities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Tamil Nadu has the second highest COVID-19 cases \u2013 1,14,978 with 1,571 deaths followed by Delhi \u2013 1,00823 and 3,115 deaths, Gujarat \u2013 36,772 cases and\u00a01,960 fatalities and Uttar Pradesh \u2013 28,636 cases and 809 deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A total of 1,02,11,092 samples have been tested up to July 6 of which 2,41,430 samples were tested yesterday, 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 7,19,665 as it recorded 22,252 fresh infections in the last 24 hours. A total of 20,160 coronavirus patients have lost their lives, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday. There are 2,59,557 active cases while 4,39,947 have been cured\/discharged, according to Health Ministry data. Maharashtra [&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\/324507"}],"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=324507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324508,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324507\/revisions\/324508"}],"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=324507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}