{"id":319748,"date":"2020-02-08T03:20:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T03:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319748"},"modified":"2020-02-08T04:16:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T04:16:29","slug":"coronavirus-death-toll-jumps-past-700-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/coronavirus-death-toll-jumps-past-700-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus death toll jumps past 700 in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-319236 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/virus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/virus.jpg 481w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/virus-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/>The number of deaths from China&#8217;s new coronavirus epidemic has risen to 722 on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">There are now more than 34,500 confirmed infections across China, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chinese doctor Li Wenliang, who was among the first to alert other medics of the new coronavirus outbreak died of the epidemic on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">34-year-old Wenliang, an ophthalmologist in Wuhan started observing that patients had symptoms similar to the deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak of 2002-03.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He later got infected by virus while treating a patient.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The virus has spread to many countries, prompting several governments to ban arrivals from China and urge their citizens to avoid travelling to the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Major airlines have suspended flights to and from China.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of deaths from China&#8217;s new coronavirus epidemic has risen to 722 on Saturday. There are now more than 34,500 confirmed infections across China, sources said. Chinese doctor Li Wenliang, who was among the first to alert other medics of the new coronavirus outbreak died of the epidemic on Thursday. 34-year-old Wenliang, an ophthalmologist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[666,12470],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319750,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319748\/revisions\/319750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}