{"id":324687,"date":"2020-07-16T04:52:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T04:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324687"},"modified":"2020-07-16T04:52:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T04:52:53","slug":"coronavirus-cases-in-india-rise-to-968876-death-toll-at-24915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/coronavirus-cases-in-india-rise-to-968876-death-toll-at-24915\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus cases in India rise to 9,68,876; Death toll at 24,915"},"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\" \/>The number of coronavirus cases in India have risen to 9,68,876 as it recorded 32,695 fresh infections in the last 24 hours. A total of 24,915 coronavirus patients have lost their lives, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">There are 3,31,146 active cases while 6,12,814 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 2,75,640 with\u00a010,928 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 1,51,820 with 2,167 deaths followed by Delhi \u2013 1,16,993 and 3,487 deaths, Karnataka \u2013 47,253 with 928 deaths, Gujarat \u2013 44552 cases and\u00a02,079 fatalities and Uttar Pradesh \u2013 41,383 cases and 1,012 deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A total of 1,27,39,490 samples have been tested up to July 15 of which 3,26,826 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 9,68,876 as it recorded 32,695 fresh infections in the last 24 hours. A total of 24,915 coronavirus patients have lost their lives, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday. There are 3,31,146 active cases while 6,12,814 have been cured\/discharged, according to Health Ministry data. Maharashtra [&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\/324687"}],"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=324687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324688,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324687\/revisions\/324688"}],"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=324687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}