{"id":329619,"date":"2020-12-18T04:51:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T04:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329619"},"modified":"2020-12-18T04:51:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T04:51:08","slug":"with-22889-new-covid-19-cases-indias-tally-rises-to-99-79-lakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/with-22889-new-covid-19-cases-indias-tally-rises-to-99-79-lakh\/","title":{"rendered":"With 22,889 new COVID-19 cases, India\u2019s tally rises to 99.79 lakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324818 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/virus-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"681\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/virus-1.jpg 681w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/virus-1-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/virus-1-585x420.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/>With 22,889 fresh cases of the coronavirus and 338 deaths in the past 24 hours, India\u2019s tally stands at 99,79,447, while the death toll rose to 1,44,789, according to Health Ministry data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Of the total cases, 95,20,827\u00a0 have been cured\/discharged. There are 3,13,831 active cases of COVID-19 in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The recovery rate among coronavirus patients stands at 95.40%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said over 15.89 crore samples have been tested up to December 17 of which 11,13,406 samples were tested yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 22,889 fresh cases of the coronavirus and 338 deaths in the past 24 hours, India\u2019s tally stands at 99,79,447, while the death toll rose to 1,44,789, according to Health Ministry data. Of the total cases, 95,20,827\u00a0 have been cured\/discharged. There are 3,13,831 active cases of COVID-19 in India. The recovery rate among coronavirus patients [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":324818,"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\/329619"}],"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=329619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329620,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329619\/revisions\/329620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}