{"id":13434,"date":"2020-01-30T15:15:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T06:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/30\/coronavirus-deaths-leap-in-china-as-countries-struggle-to-evacuate-citizens"},"modified":"2020-01-31T03:35:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T18:35:23","slug":"coronavirus-deaths-and-fresh-cases-leap-in-china-as-countries-struggle-to-evacuate-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13434","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus deaths leap in China as countries struggle to evacuate citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHO prepares to meet to decide whether to declare outbreak a global emergency<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/jan\/30\/coronavirus-live-updates-china-death-toll-wuhan-evacuation-foreign-nationals-citizens-latest-news\">Coronavirus outbreak \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China has reported its biggest single-day jump in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/jan\/30\/coronavirus-live-updates-china-death-toll-wuhan-evacuation-foreign-nationals-citizens-latest-news\">coronavirus<\/a> deaths, as countries struggled to evacuate citizens still trapped in the city where the outbreak began and Russia closed its long border with its southern neighbour.<\/p>\n<p>The death toll rose to 170 on Thursday \u2013 up from 132 the previous day, a rise of 29%. The number of confirmed cases in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a> now stands at 7,711, up from 5,974 a day ago. The actual death rate has not risen, and is now at 2.2%.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/30\/coronavirus-deaths-leap-in-china-as-countries-struggle-to-evacuate-citizens\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO prepares to meet to decide whether to declare outbreak a global emergencyCoronavirus outbreak \u2013 latest updatesChina has reported its biggest single-day jump in coronavirus deaths, as countries struggled to evacuate citizens still trapped in the cit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1069,914,88,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-japan","category-uk-news","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13456,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13434\/revisions\/13456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}