{"id":22242,"date":"2020-08-30T20:06:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T11:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/30\/india-sets-world-record-of-highest-single-day-spike-of-covid-19-cases"},"modified":"2020-08-30T20:06:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T11:06:53","slug":"india-sets-world-record-of-highest-single-day-spike-of-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22242","title":{"rendered":"India sets world record of highest single-day spike of Covid-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>78,761 cases reported as government begins easing restrictions to help economy<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/29\/covid-19-world-map-which-countries-have-the-most-coronavirus-cases-and-deaths\">World map: which countries have most cases?<\/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 registered a record new 78,761 coronavirus cases, the world\u2019s highest single-day increase since the pandemic began, just as the government began easing restrictions to help the country\u2019s battered economy.<\/p>\n<p>The surge raised India\u2019s tally to more than 3.5m, and came as the government announced the reopening of subways in Delhi. A limited number of sports and religious events will also be allowed from next month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/30\/india-sets-world-record-of-highest-single-day-spike-of-covid-19-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>78,761 cases reported as government begins easing restrictions to help economyWorld map: which countries have most cases?See all our coronavirus coverageIndia has registered a record new 78,761 coronavirus cases, the world\u2019s highest single-day increase&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"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":[1069,62,914,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/22242","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\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22243,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22242\/revisions\/22243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}