{"id":325600,"date":"2020-08-24T05:18:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T05:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325600"},"modified":"2020-08-24T05:18:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T05:18:08","slug":"india-reports-over-61000-new-covid-19-cases-tally-surges-past-31-lakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-reports-over-61000-new-covid-19-cases-tally-surges-past-31-lakh\/","title":{"rendered":"India reports over 61,000 new COVID-19 cases; tally surges past 31 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-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 has reported 61,408 fresh cases of coronavirus and 836\u00a0deaths in the last 24 hours. The COVID-19 tally in the country now stands at\u00a031,06,349, while the death toll rose to 57,542, 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, 23,38,036 have been cured\/discharged\/migrated. There are 7,10,771 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 74.90%.<\/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 3,59,02,137 samples have been tested up to August 23 of which 6,09,917 samples were tested yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has reported 61,408 fresh cases of coronavirus and 836\u00a0deaths in the last 24 hours. The COVID-19 tally in the country now stands at\u00a031,06,349, while the death toll rose to 57,542, according to Health Ministry data. Of the total cases, 23,38,036 have been cured\/discharged\/migrated. There are 7,10,771 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\/325600"}],"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=325600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325601,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325600\/revisions\/325601"}],"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=325600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}