{"id":21816,"date":"2020-08-18T14:37:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T05:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/18\/global-report-india-hits-900000-daily-tests-amid-surge-in-coronavirus-cases"},"modified":"2020-08-18T14:37:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T05:37:43","slug":"global-report-india-hits-900000-daily-tests-amid-surge-in-coronavirus-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21816","title":{"rendered":"Global report: India hits 900,000 daily tests amid surge in coronavirus cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India reports another 876 deaths; South Korea cluster linked to church reaches 400; Trump speaks of \u2018big surge\u2019 in New Zealand<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>India has carried out nearly 900,000 coronavirus tests in a single day, a record for the country, as it fights a surge of Covid-19 cases. It comes as the South Korean cluster linked to church in northern Seoul grew to 400 cases.<\/p>\n<p><strong>India<\/strong>\u2019s health ministry said a record 899,000 tests were conducted in the 24 hours to Tuesday. Only the US has ever carried out more daily tests, conducting 926,876, on 24 July.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/18\/global-report-india-hits-900000-daily-tests-amid-surge-in-coronavirus-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India reports another 876 deaths; South Korea cluster linked to church reaches 400; Trump speaks of \u2018big surge\u2019 in New ZealandCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia has carried out nearly 900,000 coronavirus tests in a single&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":378,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,62,61,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/378"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21818,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21816\/revisions\/21818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}