{"id":33363,"date":"2021-04-23T15:32:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T11:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=33363"},"modified":"2021-04-23T15:32:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T11:32:55","slug":"india-posts-world-record-covid-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2021\/04\/23\/india-posts-world-record-covid-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"India posts world record COVID cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>India reported the world&#8217;s highest daily tally of coronavirus cases for the second day on Friday, surpassing 330,000 new cases, as it struggles with a health system in crisis and beset by accidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daily infections hit 332,730 on Friday, up from 314,835 the previous day when India set a new record, surpassing one set by the United States in January of 297,430 new cases. The US tally has since fallen, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With 332,730 new cases, India\u2019s total caseload has now passed 16 million. Deaths rose by 2,263 to reach a total of 186,920, according to health ministry data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The spike in cases came as a fire in a hospital treating COVID-19 patients killed a dozen people on Friday, the latest accident to hit a facility in India crowded with people infected with the coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India reported the world&#8217;s highest daily tally of coronavirus cases for the second day on Friday, surpassing 330,000 new cases, as it struggles with a health system in crisis and beset by accidents. Daily infections hit 332,730 on Friday, up from 314,835 the previous day when India set a new record, surpassing one set by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33365,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33363\/revisions\/33365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}