{"id":321541,"date":"2020-03-27T05:06:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T05:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321541"},"modified":"2020-03-27T05:06:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T05:06:31","slug":"us-tops-in-coronavirus-cases-in-world-surpasses-china-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/us-tops-in-coronavirus-cases-in-world-surpasses-china-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"US tops in coronavirus cases in world, surpasses China, Italy"},"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 United States has surpassed China with the highest number of\u00a0coronavirus cases around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Over 83,000 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, the death toll due to COVID-19 in the country is still lower than China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">New York City is among the worst-hit cities due to COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">New York Governor Andrew Cuomo\u00a0said, \u201cWe want to see a reduction in rate of increase of spread. That&#8217;s the first sign of progress. We are doing everything possible to slow the spread while adding hospital capacity. Our goal is to have a 1000+ overflow facility in every county.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cNew York is doing more tests, now up to 18,650 tests per day. 25% of all tests in the country have been done in New York. We need to find the positives to help stop the spread,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">US President Donald Trump thanked American People for continuing to practice social distancing. \u201cBy staying home, you are saving lives,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the data, coronavirus related deaths worldwide have surpassed 20000.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has surpassed China with the highest number of\u00a0coronavirus cases around the world. Over 83,000 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the US. However, the death toll due to COVID-19 in the country is still lower than China. New York City is among the worst-hit cities due to COVID-19. New York Governor [&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\/321541"}],"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=321541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321542,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321541\/revisions\/321542"}],"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=321541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}