{"id":323408,"date":"2020-05-21T04:13:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T04:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323408"},"modified":"2020-05-21T04:13:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T04:13:08","slug":"global-coronavirus-cases-surpass-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/global-coronavirus-cases-surpass-5-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Global coronavirus cases surpass 5 million"},"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-320100 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/virus-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/virus-1-1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/virus-1-1-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/>The novel coronavirus cases surpassed 5 million mark globally, with over 3.2 lakh fatalities<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The United States\u00a0is the hardest-hit by the global pandemic with more than 1.5 million cases and nearly 93,000 deaths, while the\u00a0UK has the second-highest death toll with over 35,000, followed by Italy with more than 32,000 fatalities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Brazil has surpassed Germany, France and the UK to become the third-largest hit by pandemic globally, behind the United States and Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The virus which was first originated in China\u2019s Wuhan has spread to at least 196 countries.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The novel coronavirus cases surpassed 5 million mark globally, with over 3.2 lakh fatalities The United States\u00a0is the hardest-hit by the global pandemic with more than 1.5 million cases and nearly 93,000 deaths, while the\u00a0UK has the second-highest death toll with over 35,000, followed by Italy with more than 32,000 fatalities. Brazil has surpassed Germany, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":320100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[12470],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323408"}],"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=323408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323409,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323408\/revisions\/323409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/320100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}