{"id":24266,"date":"2020-10-29T15:10:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T06:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/29\/global-covid-report-india-passes-8m-cases-as-germany-sees-record-infections"},"modified":"2020-10-29T15:10:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T06:10:46","slug":"global-covid-report-india-passes-8m-cases-as-germany-sees-record-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24266","title":{"rendered":"Global Covid report: India passes 8m cases as Germany sees record infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany reports record one-day rise in cases; China reports highest cases in two months; US hospitals warned of cyberattacks<\/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><strong>India<\/strong>\u2019s confirmed number of coronavirus cases has surpassed 8 million, as concerns grew over the looming Hindu festival season. It is only the second country worldwide to confirm more than 8 million cases, after the US, which has more than 8.8m. <\/p>\n<p>The Indian health ministry reported another 49,881 infections and 517 fatalities on Thursday, raising the total death toll to 120,527.<\/p>\n<p>It took until mid-July for India to record its first million cases. Two months later, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/16\/global-report-indias-coronavirus-cases-pass-5-million\">5 million people had tested positive<\/a>. But the nation has seen a slower spread since 16 September, when daily infections hit a record 97,894, with daily deaths at a high of 1,275.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/29\/global-covid-report-india-passes-8m-cases-as-germany-sees-record-infections\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany reports record one-day rise in cases; China reports highest cases in two months; US hospitals warned of cyberattacksCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia\u2019s confirmed number of coronavirus cases has surpassed 8 millio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1404,"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":[41,50,1066,62,914,448,212,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-iran","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","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\/24266","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\/1404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24267,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24266\/revisions\/24267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}