{"id":4282,"date":"2020-05-16T05:59:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T05:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=4282"},"modified":"2020-05-16T05:59:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T05:59:55","slug":"with-spike-of-close-to-4000-cases-indias-covid-19-count-reaches-85940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/16\/with-spike-of-close-to-4000-cases-indias-covid-19-count-reaches-85940\/","title":{"rendered":"With spike of close to 4000 cases, India\u2019s COVID-19 count reaches 85,940"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> With 3,970 new\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0cases being reported in the last 24 hours, the\u00a0count\u00a0of total confirmed cases in the\u00a0country reached 85,940 on Saturday, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.<br>The death toll due to the infection also reached 2,752 with an increase of 103 cases in the past 24 hours, according to the Ministry.<br>The number of active cases in the\u00a0country now stands at 53,035, while the number of patients who have been cured and discharged stands at 30,152, one patient has also migrated.<br>Maharashtra\u2019s\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0count\u00a0is the highest among states in the\u00a0country with 29,100 confirmed cases.<br>However, 6,564 patients have recovered in\u00a0Maharashtra, while almost 40 per cent of nationwide deaths, 1,068, owing to the disease have been reported from the state alone.<br>Tamil Nadu\u00a0with 10,108 and\u00a0Gujarat\u00a0with 9,931\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0cases, respectively, are the two next worst-affected states in the\u00a0country. The national capital,\u00a0Delhi, with 8,895 confirmed cases is also higher up in the list. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 3,970 new\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0cases being reported in the last 24 hours, the\u00a0count\u00a0of total confirmed cases in the\u00a0country reached 85,940 on Saturday, according to the Ministry of Health&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4282","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-corona-update","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}