{"id":121754,"date":"2021-04-20T10:24:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T17:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/global-tally-of-covid-19-cases-top-142-million-as-indias-surge-raises-the-alarm"},"modified":"2021-04-20T10:24:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T17:24:21","slug":"global-tally-of-covid-19-cases-top-142-million-as-indias-surge-raises-the-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/global-tally-of-covid-19-cases-top-142-million-as-indias-surge-raises-the-alarm","title":{"rendered":"Global tally of COVID-19 cases top 142 million as India\u2019s surge raises the alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/global-tally-of-covid-19-cases-top-142-million-as-indias-surge-raises-the-alarm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus-borne illness COVID-19 climbed above 142 million on Tuesday, and India remained a hot spot, recording more than 250000 new infections and over 1700 deaths in the past 24 hours alone.<\/p>\n<p>India has the second-highest case tally in the world after the U.S. with more than 15 million cases, <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.jhu.edu\/map.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" >according to data aggregated by Johns Hopkins University.<\/a> The country of more than 1.3 billion has suffered more than 180000 deaths \u2014 and experts say <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/virus-outbreak-international-news-india-1f90b42d999a4c918e550ef36164d3be\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" >these numbers are likely an undercount<\/a>, the Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n<p>The capital New Delhi entered lockdown again on Monday in an effort to curb a surge in cases that has hospitals overflowing, intensive-care units full and oxygen in short supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus-borne illness COVID-19 climbed above 142 million on Tuesday, and India remained a hot spot, recording more than 250000 new infections and over 1700 deaths in the past 24 hours alone. India has the second-highest case tally in the world after the U.S. with more than 15 million [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}