{"id":325581,"date":"2020-08-22T05:20:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T05:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325581"},"modified":"2020-08-22T05:20:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T05:20:09","slug":"india-records-over-69000-covid-19-cases-in-24-hours-tally-crosses-29-75-lakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-records-over-69000-covid-19-cases-in-24-hours-tally-crosses-29-75-lakh\/","title":{"rendered":"India records over 69,000 COVID-19 cases in 24 hours; tally crosses 29.75 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 has reported 69,878 fresh cases of coronavirus and 945\u00a0deaths in the last 24 hours. The COVID-19 tally in the country now stands at\u00a029,75,702, while the death toll rose to 55,794, 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, 22,22,578 have been cured\/discharged\/migrated. There are 6,97,330 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 74.30%.<\/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 Saturday said a total of 3,44,91,073 samples have been tested up to August 21 of which 10,23,836 samples were tested yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has reported 69,878 fresh cases of coronavirus and 945\u00a0deaths in the last 24 hours. The COVID-19 tally in the country now stands at\u00a029,75,702, while the death toll rose to 55,794, according to Health Ministry data. Of the total cases, 22,22,578 have been cured\/discharged\/migrated. There are 6,97,330 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\/325581"}],"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=325581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325582,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325581\/revisions\/325582"}],"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=325581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}