{"id":325503,"date":"2020-08-17T04:47:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T04:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325503"},"modified":"2020-08-17T04:47:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T04:47:10","slug":"indias-covid-19-tally-over-26-lakh-death-toll-crosses-50000-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/indias-covid-19-tally-over-26-lakh-death-toll-crosses-50000-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s COVID-19 tally over 26 lakh; Death toll crosses 50,000-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-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\" \/>India\u2019s coronavirus cases on Monday rose to 26,47,664 as 57,982 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 50,921 with 941 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, 19,19,843 have been cured\/discharged\/migrated. There are 6,76,900 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 71.91%.<\/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 3,00,41,400 samples have been tested up to August 16 of which 7,31,697 samples were tested yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s coronavirus cases on Monday rose to 26,47,664 as 57,982 people have tested Covid-19 positive in a day, according to Health Ministry data. The death toll climbed to 50,921 with 941 people succumbing to the disease. Of the total cases, 19,19,843 have been cured\/discharged\/migrated. There are 6,76,900 active cases of COVID-19 in India. The recovery [&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\/325503"}],"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=325503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325504,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325503\/revisions\/325504"}],"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=325503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}