{"id":15426,"date":"2020-06-28T11:41:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T06:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=15426"},"modified":"2020-06-28T11:41:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T06:41:22","slug":"virus-cases-in-india-cross-0-5m-mark-in-record-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/15426","title":{"rendered":"Virus cases in India cross 0.5M mark in record surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW DELHI, India\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With 18,552 corona virus cases in the past 24 hours, India&#8217;s nationwide tally on Saturday crossed the 0.5 million mark, the biggest surge so far, the Health Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the death toll touched 15,700 with 384 more fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 295,881 people in the country have gone on to make a recovery.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Delhi recorded 3,390 cases in the biggest single-day spike, taking lead over the worst-hit financial capital Mumbai. The case-count in the capital has hit 73,780, with 2,492 fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted that testing capacity in the capital was increased four-fold to conduct 21,144 tests on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Malls in and around Delhi are expected to open next week after three months.<\/p>\n<p>In most states, however, the number of recoveries are now higher than the number of active cases.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the eastern state of Jharkhand became the second state after West Bengal to extend the lockdown until July 31.<\/p>\n<p>After originating in China last December, the novel virus has spread to 188 countries and territories.<\/p>\n<p>More than 9.8 million people have been infected worldwide with the virus, over 494,000 killed and an upward of 4.94 million recovered, according Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, India\u00a0 With 18,552 corona virus cases in the past 24 hours, India&#8217;s nationwide tally on Saturday crossed the 0.5 million mark, the biggest surge so far, the Health Ministry said. Meanwhile, the death toll touched 15,700 with 384 more fatalities. A total of 295,881 people in the country have gone on to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15427,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15426\/revisions\/15427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}