{"id":325474,"date":"2020-08-16T04:17:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T04:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325474"},"modified":"2020-08-16T04:19:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T04:19:19","slug":"india-records-over-63000-covid-19-cases-in-24-hours-tally-at-25-89-lakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-records-over-63000-covid-19-cases-in-24-hours-tally-at-25-89-lakh\/","title":{"rendered":"India records over 63,000 COVID-19 cases in 24 hours, tally at 25.89 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-320692 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/virus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus.jpg 819w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus-768x418.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus-696x379.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus-771x420.jpg 771w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/>India&#8217;s coronavirus cases on Sunday rose to 25,89,682 as 63,489 people have tested Covid-19 positive in a day, 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;\">The death toll climbed to 49,980 with 944 people succumbing to the disease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Of the total cases, 18,62,258 have been cured\/discharged. There are 6,77,444 active cases of COVID-19 in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The recovery rate among the coronavirus patients stands at 71.61%.<\/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 Sunday said a total of 2,93,09,703 samples have been tested up to August 15 of which 7,46,608 samples were tested yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s coronavirus cases on Sunday rose to 25,89,682 as 63,489 people have tested Covid-19 positive in a day, according to Health Ministry data. The death toll climbed to 49,980 with 944 people succumbing to the disease. Of the total cases, 18,62,258 have been cured\/discharged. There are 6,77,444 active cases of COVID-19 in India. The recovery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":320692,"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\/325474"}],"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=325474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325477,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325474\/revisions\/325477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/320692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}