{"id":339589,"date":"2022-09-19T03:38:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T09:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=339589"},"modified":"2022-09-19T03:38:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T09:08:31","slug":"india-logs-4858-new-covid-19-cases-18-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-logs-4858-new-covid-19-cases-18-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"India logs 4,858 new Covid-19 cases, 18 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last 24 hours, India logged 4, 858 new Covid-19 cases and 18 deaths, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday.\u00a0The new fatalities have pushed the nationwide death toll to 5,28,355.<\/p>\n<p>The active caseload rose to 48,027, accounting for 0.11 % of the country&#8217;s total positive cases.<\/p>\n<p>The recovery of 4,735 patients in the last 24 hours took the cumulative tally to 4,39,62, 664. Consequently, India&#8217;s recovery rate stands at 98.71 %.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the daily and weekly positivity rates stood at 2.76 % and 1.78 % respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the same period, a total of 1,75,935 tests were conducted across the country, increasing the overall tally to over 89.17 crore.<\/p>\n<p>As of Monday morning, India&#8217;s Covid-19 vaccination coverage exceeded 216.70 crore.<\/p>\n<p>Over 4.08 crore adolescents have been administered with a first dose of Covid-19 jab since the beginning of vaccination drive for this age bracket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last 24 hours, India logged 4, 858 new Covid-19 cases and 18 deaths, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday.\u00a0The new fatalities have pushed the nationwide death toll to 5,28,355. The active caseload rose to 48,027, accounting for 0.11 % of the country&#8217;s total positive cases. The recovery of 4,735 patients in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":338466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339589"}],"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=339589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339590,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339589\/revisions\/339590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/338466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}