{"id":15087,"date":"2020-02-27T14:22:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T05:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/27\/coronavirus-live-updates-china-wuhan-hubei-south-korea-japan-trumpcases-infections-death-toll-outbreak-italy-latest-news"},"modified":"2020-02-27T23:36:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T14:36:36","slug":"coronavirus-latest-updates-australia-initiates-emergency-plan-as-trump-says-risk-to-us-is-very-low-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15087","title":{"rendered":"Japan closes schools as Saudi Arabia halts pilgrimages due to Coronavirus fears &#8211; as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK reports two new cases as outbreak spreads and losses on stock markets mount <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/27\/coronavirus-news-live-updates\">This live blog is closed. Follow the latest coronavirus updates here<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/26\/coronavirus-donald-trump-us-response\">Trump puts VP Pence in charge of US response<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/26\/more-new-coronavirus-cases-outside-china-than-inside-says-who\">More new cases outside China than inside, says WHO<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ng-interactive\/2020\/feb\/26\/coronavirus-map-how-covid-19-is-spreading-across-the-world\">Coronavirus map: how Covid-19 is spreading across the world<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/26\/coronavirus-inquiry-opens-into-hospitals-at-centre-of-italy-outbreak\">Inquiry opens into hospitals at centre of Italy outbreak<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2020\/jan\/23\/tell-us-have-you-been-affected-by-the-coronavirus\">Share your experiences<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-02-27T14:36:36.995Z\">2.36pm <span class=\"timezone\">GMT<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re now closing this live blog. You can follow the latest updates on our new live blog:<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/27\/coronavirus-news-live-updates\">Coronavirus news: death toll rises in Italy and Iran as outbreak could cause 2008-level economic damage &#8211; live updates<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-02-27T14:35:43.846Z\">2.35pm <span class=\"timezone\">GMT<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a recap of what has happened so far today:<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/27\/coronavirus-live-updates-china-wuhan-hubei-south-korea-japan-trumpcases-infections-death-toll-outbreak-italy-latest-news\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK reports two new cases as outbreak spreads and losses on stock markets mount This live blog is closed. Follow the latest coronavirus updates hereTrump puts VP Pence in charge of US responseMore new cases outside China than inside, says WHOCoronavirus&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[41,50,1069,415,914,88,1157,222,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-donald-trump","category-infectious-diseases","category-japan","category-mike-pence","category-south-korea","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\/15087","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15087"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15135,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15087\/revisions\/15135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}