{"id":324911,"date":"2020-07-24T04:17:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T04:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324911"},"modified":"2020-07-24T04:17:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T04:17:19","slug":"highest-single-day-spike-of-49310-covid-19-cases-take-indias-tally-to-1287945-death-toll-at-30601","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/highest-single-day-spike-of-49310-covid-19-cases-take-indias-tally-to-1287945-death-toll-at-30601\/","title":{"rendered":"Highest single-day spike of 49,310 COVID-19 cases take India\u2019s tally to 12,87,945; Death toll at 30,601"},"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-324818 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/virus-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"681\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/virus-1.jpg 681w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/virus-1-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/virus-1-585x420.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/>The number of coronavirus cases in India have risen to 12,87,945 as it recorded 49,310 fresh infections in the last 24 hours. A total of 30,601 coronavirus patients have lost their lives, the Union Health Ministry said on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">There are 4,40,135 active cases while 8,17,208 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 3,47,502 with\u00a012,854 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 1,92,964 with 3,232 deaths followed by Delhi \u2013 1,27,364 and 3,745 deaths, Karnataka \u2013 80,863 with 1,616 deaths, Andhra Pradesh \u2013 72,711 and 884 deaths, Uttar Pradesh \u2013 58,104 and 1,289 deaths and Gujarat \u2013 52,477 and\u00a02,252 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 Friday said a total of 1,54,28,170 samples have been tested up to July 23 of which 3,52,801 samples were tested yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of coronavirus cases in India have risen to 12,87,945 as it recorded 49,310 fresh infections in the last 24 hours. A total of 30,601 coronavirus patients have lost their lives, the Union Health Ministry said on Friday. There are 4,40,135 active cases while 8,17,208 have been cured\/discharged, according to Health Ministry data. Maharashtra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":324818,"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\/324911"}],"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=324911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324912,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324911\/revisions\/324912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}