{"id":5995,"date":"2021-04-16T17:09:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T11:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper?p=5995"},"modified":"2021-04-16T17:09:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T11:39:32","slug":"india-breaches-2-lakh-daily-covid-cases-for-second-straight-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/2021\/04\/16\/india-breaches-2-lakh-daily-covid-cases-for-second-straight-day\/","title":{"rendered":"India Breaches 2 Lakh Daily Covid Cases for Second Straight Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">India reported 2,17,353 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the biggest single-day spike ever, taking the overall tally to 14,291,917 cases today, according to the Health Ministry data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">This is the second consecutive day that the country has registered over 2 lakh cases. Yesterday, the number was 2, 00, 739.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Also in the last 24 hours, there were 1,185 new Covid-19 fatalities, the second consecutive day with over a thousand deaths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">This took the overall death toll in the country to 1,74,308.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Meanwhile, the daily active cases tally today rose to 15, 69, 743.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">A total of 1,18,302 patients recovered in the same time span, taking the number of recoveries to 1,25,47,866, with a recovery rate of 88.31 per cent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The Health Ministry said that a total of 14, 73, 210 samples were tested in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">So far, 26,34,76,625 samples have been tested in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">According to the government data, a total of 27,30,359 people were also vaccinated in the same period, taking the total inoculation count to 11,72,23,509.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India reported 2,17,353 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the biggest single-day spike ever, taking the overall tally to 14,291,917 cases today, according to the Health Ministry data. This is the second consecutive day that the country has registered over 2 lakh cases. Yesterday, the number was 2, 00, 739. Also in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","category-main-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5997,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5995\/revisions\/5997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}