{"id":324840,"date":"2020-07-20T04:39:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T04:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324840"},"modified":"2020-07-20T04:39:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T04:39:26","slug":"biggest-single-day-spike-of-40425-covid-19-cases-take-indias-tally-to-over-11-lakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/biggest-single-day-spike-of-40425-covid-19-cases-take-indias-tally-to-over-11-lakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest single-day spike of 40,425 COVID-19 cases take India&#8217;s tally to over 11 lakh"},"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 1,11,8043 as it recorded 40,425 fresh infections in the last 24 hours. A total of 27,497 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 3,90,459 active cases while 7,00086 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 3,10,455 with\u00a011,854 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 1,70,693 with 2,481 deaths followed by Delhi \u2013 1,22,793 and 3,628 deaths, Karnataka \u2013 63,772 with 1,331 deaths, Andhra Pradesh \u2013 49,650 and 642 deaths, Uttar Pradesh \u2013 49,247 and 1,146 deaths and Gujarat \u2013 48,355 and\u00a02,142 fatalities<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Monday said a total of 1,40,47,908 samples have been tested up to July 19 of which 2,56,039 samples were tested yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of coronavirus cases in India have risen to 1,11,8043 as it recorded 40,425 fresh infections in the last 24 hours. A total of 27,497 coronavirus patients have lost their lives, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday. There are 3,90,459 active cases while 7,00086 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\/324840"}],"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=324840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324841,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324840\/revisions\/324841"}],"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=324840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}