{"id":325523,"date":"2020-08-18T04:36:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T04:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325523"},"modified":"2020-08-18T04:36:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T04:36:31","slug":"with-over-55000-new-covid-19-cases-indias-tally-crosses-27-lakh-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/with-over-55000-new-covid-19-cases-indias-tally-crosses-27-lakh-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"With over 55,000 new COVID-19 cases, India&#8217;s tally crosses 27 lakh-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-319336 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/cornavirus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"583\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/cornavirus.jpg 583w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/cornavirus-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/cornavirus-522x420.jpg 522w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/>India\u2019s coronavirus cases on Tuesday rose to 27,02,743 as 55,079 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 51,797 with 876 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, 19,77,780 have been cured\/discharged\/migrated. There are 6,73,166 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 72.51%.<\/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 Tuesday said a total of 3,09,41,264 samples have been tested up to August 17 of which 8,99,864 samples were tested yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s coronavirus cases on Tuesday rose to 27,02,743 as 55,079 people have tested Covid-19 positive in a day, according to Health Ministry data. The death toll climbed to 51,797 with 876 people succumbing to the disease. Of the total cases, 19,77,780 have been cured\/discharged\/migrated. There are 6,73,166 active cases of COVID-19 in India. The recovery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319336,"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\/325523"}],"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=325523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325524,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325523\/revisions\/325524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}