{"id":325567,"date":"2020-08-21T04:34:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T04:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325567"},"modified":"2020-08-21T04:34:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T04:34:15","slug":"india-registers-over-68000-covid-19-cases-in-24-hours-tally-over-29-lakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-registers-over-68000-covid-19-cases-in-24-hours-tally-over-29-lakh\/","title":{"rendered":"India registers over 68,000 COVID-19 cases in 24 hours; tally over 29 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-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 has reported 68,898 fresh cases of coronavirus and 983\u00a0deaths in the last 24 hours. The COVID-19 tally in the country now stands at\u00a029,05,824, while the death toll rose to 54,849, 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, 21,58,947 have been cured\/discharged\/migrated. There are 6,92,028 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 73.91%.<\/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 Friday said a total of 3,34,67,237 samples have been tested up to August 20 of which 8,05,985 samples were tested yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has reported 68,898 fresh cases of coronavirus and 983\u00a0deaths in the last 24 hours. The COVID-19 tally in the country now stands at\u00a029,05,824, while the death toll rose to 54,849, according to Health Ministry data. Of the total cases, 21,58,947 have been cured\/discharged\/migrated. There are 6,92,028 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\/325567"}],"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=325567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325568,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325567\/revisions\/325568"}],"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=325567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}