{"id":325157,"date":"2020-08-03T04:25:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T04:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325157"},"modified":"2020-08-03T04:25:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T04:25:03","slug":"global-coronavirus-cases-cross-18-million-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/global-coronavirus-cases-cross-18-million-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Global coronavirus cases cross 18 million-mark"},"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-321998 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cvirus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/cvirus.jpg 643w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/cvirus-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/>The number of coronavirus cases recorded worldwide has surpassed 18 million, while more than 6,80,000 people have lost their lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The United States remained the worst affected country as more than half of the world&#8217;s COVID-19 cases have been recorded in the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The US has so far reported over 4.6 million COVID-19 cases with more than 154,000 deaths, followed by Brazil, with more than 2.73 million cases and over 94,000 deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The third worst-hit country is India, with over 18 lakh cases and 38135 deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The virus which first originated from China\u2019s Wuhan has infected at least 210 countries.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of coronavirus cases recorded worldwide has surpassed 18 million, while more than 6,80,000 people have lost their lives. The United States remained the worst affected country as more than half of the world&#8217;s COVID-19 cases have been recorded in the US. The US has so far reported over 4.6 million COVID-19 cases with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[12470],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325157"}],"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=325157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325158,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325157\/revisions\/325158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}