{"id":268571,"date":"2020-09-13T06:31:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T10:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=268571"},"modified":"2020-09-13T06:31:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T10:31:41","slug":"indias-covid-19-tally-surpasses-4-7-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/09\/13\/indias-covid-19-tally-surpasses-4-7-million\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Covid-19 tally surpasses 4.7 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_247937\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-247937\" style=\"width: 791px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cdc-c4IBsSCuwIU-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-247937\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cdc-c4IBsSCuwIU-unsplash-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cdc-c4IBsSCuwIU-unsplash-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cdc-c4IBsSCuwIU-unsplash-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cdc-c4IBsSCuwIU-unsplash-768x994.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-247937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">India has registered a daily increase of more than 90,000 infections for five straight days and has added 1 million new cases in less than two weeks. (File Photo by CDC\/Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>NEW DELHI, India<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 India\u2019s coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic figures crossed the 4.7 million mark Sunday after it recorded more than 94,000 new cases, according to health ministry figures.<\/p>\n<p>India has registered a daily increase of more than 90,000 infections for five straight days and has added 1 million new cases in less than two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>It recorded 94,372 new cases, taking the number of cases to 4,754,356.<\/p>\n<p>With 1,114 more fatalities, deaths have reached 78,586.<\/p>\n<p>While infections are rapidly increasing, the health ministry is boasting about the steep increase in recoveries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndia&#8217;s #COVID Recoveries have witnessed a steep exponential rise &#8212; from 50,000 in May to over 36 lakh in Sept. A high level of more than 70,000 Recoveries reported every day. Recoveries are nearly 3.8 times the Active Cases (under 1\/4 total cases),\u201d the ministry tweeted Sunday. A lakh is 1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Home Minister Amit Shah was admitted to a hospital in New Delhi late Saturday, nearly two weeks after he was discharged from a hospital, local broadcaster NDTV reported. Shah earlier tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n<p>A serosurvey &#8212; test of blood serum &#8212; published in a medical journal estimated India had 6.4 million infections three months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Experts believe that by the end of September it may surpass the US, the worst-affected country with 6.48 million Covid-19 cases, in the severity of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>India is ranked third globally in virus deaths, according to John Hopkins University.<em><strong>\u00a0(Anadolu)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, India\u00a0\u2013 India\u2019s coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic figures crossed the 4.7 million mark Sunday after it recorded more &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":247937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268572,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268571\/revisions\/268572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}