{"id":323566,"date":"2020-05-31T04:38:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T04:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323566"},"modified":"2020-05-31T07:31:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T07:31:47","slug":"global-covid-19-cases-surpass-6-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/global-covid-19-cases-surpass-6-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Global COVID-19 cases surpass 6 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 total number of global coronavirus cases has topped the 6 million mark, with nearly 3,70,000 deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The US is the worst affected country in the world with more than 1.7 million confirmed cases and over 100,000 deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meanwhile, in terms of cases, Brazil comes in second place with more than 490,000 infections<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This was followed by Russia, the UK, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, India, Turkey, Peru and Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Regarding deaths, the UK continues in the second position after the US with over 38,000 COVID-19 fatalities.<\/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 from China\u2019s Wuhan has spread to at least 210 countries.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The total number of global coronavirus cases has topped the 6 million mark, with nearly 3,70,000 deaths. The US is the worst affected country in the world with more than 1.7 million confirmed cases and over 100,000 deaths. Meanwhile, in terms of cases, Brazil comes in second place with more than 490,000 infections This was [&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":[12750],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323566"}],"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=323566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323567,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323566\/revisions\/323567"}],"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=323566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}