{"id":324624,"date":"2020-07-13T04:33:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T04:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324624"},"modified":"2020-07-13T04:33:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T04:33:47","slug":"indias-covid-19-cases-rise-to-878254-death-toll-at-23174","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/indias-covid-19-cases-rise-to-878254-death-toll-at-23174\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s COVID-19 cases rise to 8,78,254; Death toll at 23,174"},"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 8,78,254 as it recorded 28,701 fresh infections in the last 24 hours. A total of 23,174 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 3,01,609 active cases while 5,53,470 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 2,54,427 with\u00a010,289 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 1,38,470 with 1,966 deaths followed by Delhi \u2013 1,12,494 and 3,371 deaths, Gujarat \u2013 41,820 cases and\u00a02,045 fatalities, Karnataka \u2013 38,843 with 684 deaths and Uttar Pradesh \u2013 36,476 cases and 934 deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A total of 1,18,06,256 samples have been tested up to July 12 of which 2,19,103 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 8,78,254 as it recorded 28,701 fresh infections in the last 24 hours. A total of 23,174 coronavirus patients have lost their lives, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday. There are 3,01,609 active cases while 5,53,470 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\/324624"}],"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=324624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324627,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324624\/revisions\/324627"}],"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=324624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}