{"id":9052,"date":"2020-06-28T10:24:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T10:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9052"},"modified":"2020-06-28T10:25:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T10:25:03","slug":"global-covid-19-cases-pass-10-mn-deaths-near-5-mn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/global-covid-19-cases-pass-10-mn-deaths-near-5-mn\/","title":{"rendered":"Global COVID-19 cases pass 10 mn; deaths near 5 mn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Global coronavirus cases passed 10 million on Sunday according to a Reuters tally, while the disease has so far killed almost half a million people in seven months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The figure is roughly double the number of severe influenza illnesses recorded annually, according to the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Some countries are experiencing a resurgence in infections, leading authorities to partially reinstate lockdowns, in what experts say could be a recurring pattern in the coming months and into 2021.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">North America, Latin America, and Europe each account for around 25% of cases, while Asia and the Middle East have around 11% and 9% respectively, according to the Reuters tally, which uses government reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">There have been more than 497,000 fatalities linked to the disease so far, roughly the same as the number of influenza deaths reported annually.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The first cases of the new coronavirus were confirmed on Jan. 10 in Wuhan in China before infections and fatalities surged in Europe, then the United States, and later Russia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The pandemic has now entered a new phase, with India and Brazil battling outbreaks of over 10,000 cases a day, putting a major strain on resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global coronavirus cases passed 10 million on Sunday according to a Reuters tally, while&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}