{"id":22022,"date":"2020-03-26T23:41:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T18:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/israels-coronavirus-cases-jump-to-2495\/"},"modified":"2020-03-26T23:41:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T18:11:51","slug":"israels-coronavirus-cases-jump-to-2495","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=22022","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s coronavirus cases jump to 2,495"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Country&#8217;s death toll from COVID-19 pandemic stands at 5<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/israels-coronavirus-cases-jump-to-2-495\/1780100#\">AA News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JERUSALEM: Israel&#8217;s coronavirus infections have risen to 2,495 after 126 new cases were reported, according to the Health Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A statement by the ministry, cited by the Israeli Broadcasting Authority, said 41 patients are in critical condition, while 66 have recovered from the virus so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, Israel confirmed its fifth death from the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel has taken several measures to stem the spread of the disease, including closing cafes, restaurants, hotels, shopping malls, and entertainment venues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, the Israeli government decided to track confirmed and suspected coronavirus patients by monitoring their cell phones as part of its fight against the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 first emerged in Wuhan, China, last December and has spread to at least 175 countries and territories. The World Health Organization has declared the outbreak a pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over 472,100 coronavirus cases have been confirmed worldwide and the death toll exceeded 21,300 while more than 114,800 have recovered, according to data compiled by the U.S.-based Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the rising number of cases, most who become infected suffer only mild symptoms and recover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>(This story has not been edited by Kashmir Today staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country&#8217;s death toll from COVID-19 pandemic stands at 5 AA News JERUSALEM: Israel&#8217;s coronavirus infections have risen to 2,495 after 126 new cases were reported, according to the Health Ministry. A statement by the ministry, cited by the Israeli Broadcasting Authority, said 41 patients are in critical condition, while 66 have recovered from the virus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}