{"id":4118,"date":"2020-08-04T16:21:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T09:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illume-emag.com\/?p=4118"},"modified":"2020-08-04T16:21:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T09:21:14","slug":"top-indian-ministers-hospital-virus-cases-breach-50000-fifth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/top-indian-ministers-hospital-virus-cases-breach-50000-fifth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Indian ministers in hospital as virus cases breach 50,000 for fifth day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BENGALURU \u2014\u00a0India\u2019s interior minister and the chiefs of two big states have been hospitalized with COVID-19 as the country\u2019s daily cases topped 50,000 for a fifth straight day on Monday.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4119 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/r-390-1596442861-1024x689.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"468\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A worker wearing a protective face mask checks the temperature of a traveller at Dadar railway station, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mumbai, India, July 31, 2020. Photo: Reuters<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The country reported 52,972 new confirmed infections in the past 24 hours, taking the total to 1.8 million &#8211; the third highest in the world after the United States and Brazil &#8211; data from India\u2019s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare showed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With 771 new deaths, the COVID-19 disease has now killed 38,135 people in India, including that of a minister on Sunday in the most-populous state of Uttar Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Sunday, federal interior minister Amit Shah, one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s closest aides, as well as the chief minister of the southern state of Karnataka, were hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The chief of the central state of Madhya Pradesh is also recovering in hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was not immediately clear whether Shah\u2019s cabinet colleagues, including the finance minister, had isolated themselves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As infections continue to surge in the country, having registered a record of 57,118 on Saturday, India has also stepped up efforts to test more people and search for a vaccine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The health ministry said on Twitter that the country\u2019s drugs authorities had allowed Serum Institute of India, the world\u2019s largest manufacturer of vaccines by volume, to conduct clinical trials of a vaccine candidate developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca Plc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU \u2014\u00a0India\u2019s interior minister and the chiefs of two big states have been hospitalized with COVID-19 as the country\u2019s daily cases topped 50,000 for a fifth straight day on Monday.\u00a0 A worker wearing a protective face mask checks the temperature of a traveller at Dadar railway station, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[761],"tags":[1087,1123],"class_list":{"0":"post-4118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-buzz","8":"tag-coronavirus","9":"tag-covid-19"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}