{"id":324808,"date":"2020-07-18T04:31:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T04:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324808"},"modified":"2020-07-18T04:31:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T04:31:48","slug":"indias-covid-19-cases-rise-to-1038716-death-toll-at-26273","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/indias-covid-19-cases-rise-to-1038716-death-toll-at-26273\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s COVID-19 cases rise to 1,038,716; Death toll at 26,273"},"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 1,038,716 as it recorded 34,884 fresh infections in the last 24 hours. A total of 26,273 coronavirus patients have lost their lives, the Union 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;\">There are 3,58,692 active cases while 6,53,750 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 2,92,589 with\u00a011,452 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 1,60,907 with 2,315 deaths followed by Delhi \u2013 120107 and 3,571 deaths, Karnataka \u2013 55,115 with 1,147 deaths, Gujarat \u2013 46,430 cases and\u00a02,106 fatalities and Uttar Pradesh \u2013 45,163 cases and 1,084 deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A total of 1,34,33,742 samples have been tested up to July 17 of which 3,61,024 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 1,038,716 as it recorded 34,884 fresh infections in the last 24 hours. A total of 26,273 coronavirus patients have lost their lives, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday. There are 3,58,692 active cases while 6,53,750 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\/324808"}],"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=324808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324809,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324808\/revisions\/324809"}],"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=324808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}