{"id":15105,"date":"2020-02-27T17:17:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T08:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/27\/coronavirus-trump-says-risk-to-us-is-very-low-as-australia-enacts-emergency-plan"},"modified":"2020-02-27T17:17:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T08:17:05","slug":"coronavirus-trump-says-us-risk-very-low-as-australian-pm-warns-pandemic-is-upon-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15105","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Trump says US risk &#8216;very low&#8217; as Australian PM warns pandemic is &#8216;upon us&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president says cases could fall to zero in a \u2018few days\u2019 but Scott Morrison launches emergency plan to deal with threat of global outbreak<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><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\">Coronavirus outbreak \u2013 follow live<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump has sought to play down the threat from coronavirus despite mounting concerns about unchecked worldwide contagion, as Australia\u2019s prime minister launched an emergency plan and said that the risk of a pandemic was \u201cvery much upon us\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference in Washington, the US president said the danger to Americans \u201cremains very low\u201d and predicted that the number of cases diagnosed in the country, currently on 15, could fall to zero in a \u201cfew days\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/27\/coronavirus-trump-says-risk-to-us-is-very-low-as-australia-enacts-emergency-plan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president says cases could fall to zero in a \u2018few days\u2019 but Scott Morrison launches emergency plan to deal with threat of global outbreakCoronavirus outbreak \u2013 follow liveDonald Trump has sought to play down the threat from coronavirus despite mount&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"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":[41,43,1069,415,914,451,88,398,386,222,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-donald-trump","category-infectious-diseases","category-italy","category-japan","category-saudi-arabia","category-scott-morrison","category-south-korea","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\/15105","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\/443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15136,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15105\/revisions\/15136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}