{"id":321604,"date":"2020-03-30T05:05:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T05:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321604"},"modified":"2020-03-30T05:05:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T05:05:28","slug":"donald-trump-extends-social-distancing-guidelines-until-april-30-says-peak-us-death-rate-likely-in-two-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/donald-trump-extends-social-distancing-guidelines-until-april-30-says-peak-us-death-rate-likely-in-two-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump extends social distancing guidelines until April 30, says peak US death rate likely in two weeks"},"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-321605 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/trump-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"673\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/trump-2.jpg 673w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/trump-2-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/trump-2-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/trump-2-595x420.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/>US President Donald Trump said that the death rate in the country due to novel coronavirus could reach its peak in two weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">During a briefing at the White House, Trump said that he was extending the social distancing guidelines until April 30.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe peak of this virus&#8217; death rate is likely to hit in two weeks. We MUST stay the course and keep following the guidelines. &#8220;Nothing would be worse than declaring victory before the victory is won,\u201d Trump said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Moreover, Trump said he expects the US will be on its way to recovery by June 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;The American people have embodied the unrivaled patriotism and willpower that has led America to conquer every challenge\u2014every single one\u2014in our Nation&#8217;s history,\u201d Trump added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the latest data, the US has over 2400 COVID-19 deaths and the total number of confirmed cases has crossed 140000.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump said that the death rate in the country due to novel coronavirus could reach its peak in two weeks. During a briefing at the White House, Trump said that he was extending the social distancing guidelines until April 30. \u201cThe peak of this virus&#8217; death rate is likely to hit in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[12470,64,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321604"}],"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=321604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321606,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321604\/revisions\/321606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}