{"id":320676,"date":"2020-03-03T04:29:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T04:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320676"},"modified":"2020-03-03T04:29:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T04:29:27","slug":"coronavirus-death-toll-rises-to-six-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/coronavirus-death-toll-rises-to-six-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus death toll rises to six in US"},"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 death toll from coronavirus in the United States has risen to six as Washington state officials announced four new deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The White House said, \u201cPresident Donald Trump met with pharmaceutical companies that are actively working to develop the COVID-19 vaccine, discussing how the federal government can help accelerate their vaccine development.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">US Vice President Mike Pence said, \u201cThe White House Coronavirus Task Force has been working every single day to ensure the health, safety &amp; well-being of the American people. Today, we made good progress in combatting the spread of the Coronavirus and added key members, @SeemaCMS and @SecWilkie, to the Task Force.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Tunisia were among the countries reported their first confirmed coronavirus cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Over 80000 people across 58 countries have now been diagnosed with the infection.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll from coronavirus in the United States has risen to six as Washington state officials announced four new deaths. The White House said, \u201cPresident Donald Trump met with pharmaceutical companies that are actively working to develop the COVID-19 vaccine, discussing how the federal government can help accelerate their vaccine development.\u201d US Vice President [&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":[12470,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320676"}],"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=320676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320677,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320676\/revisions\/320677"}],"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=320676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}