{"id":325551,"date":"2020-08-20T05:32:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T05:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325551"},"modified":"2020-08-20T05:32:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T05:32:09","slug":"with-nearly-70000-new-covid-19-cases-in-24-hours-indias-tally-crosses-28-lakh-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/with-nearly-70000-new-covid-19-cases-in-24-hours-indias-tally-crosses-28-lakh-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"With nearly 70,000 new COVID-19 cases in 24 hours, India\u2019s tally\u00a0crosses 28 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-321750 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/24a-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"886\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/24a-1.jpg 886w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/24a-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/24a-1-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/24a-1-696x466.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/24a-1-628x420.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 886px) 100vw, 886px\" \/>India has reported 69,652 fresh cases of coronavirus and 977\u00a0deaths in the last 24 hours. The COVID-19 tally in the country now stands at\u00a028,36,926, while the death toll rose to 53,866, 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;\">Of the total cases, 20,96,665 have been cured\/discharged\/migrated. There are 6,86,395 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 73.64%.<\/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 Thursday said a total of 3,26,61,252 samples have been tested up to August 19 of which 9,18,470 samples were tested yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has reported 69,652 fresh cases of coronavirus and 977\u00a0deaths in the last 24 hours. The COVID-19 tally in the country now stands at\u00a028,36,926, while the death toll rose to 53,866, according to Health Ministry data. Of the total cases, 20,96,665 have been cured\/discharged\/migrated. There are 6,86,395 active cases of COVID-19 in India. The recovery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321750,"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\/325551"}],"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=325551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325552,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325551\/revisions\/325552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}