{"id":15417,"date":"2020-03-05T14:57:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T05:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/05\/coronavirus-australia-warns-millions-could-be-infected-as-china-toll-passes-3000"},"modified":"2020-03-05T14:57:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T05:57:48","slug":"coronavirus-australia-warns-millions-could-become-infected-as-china-toll-passes-3000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15417","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Australia warns millions could become infected as China toll passes 3,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California declares state of emergency and German health minister labels outbreak a pandemic<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/mar\/05\/coronavirus-live-updates-italy-germany-pandemic-europe-uk-us-australia-india-update-latest-news\">Latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Modelling in Australia has predicted a worst-case scenario where millions inside the country could become infected with Covid-19, as China\u2019s death toll passed 3,000.<\/p>\n<p>The developments came as the coronavirus continues to spread around the world. South Korea\u2019s number of confirmed cases neared 6,000 on Thursday and Italy ordered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/04\/italy-orders-closure-of-schools-and-universities-due-to-coronavirus\">the closure of all schools<\/a> after the virus spread to all but one of its 20 regions, killing 107 people. The UK has been warned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/04\/coronavirus-epidemic-in-uk-is-likely-says-chief-medical-officer\">an epidemic is likely<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/05\/coronavirus-australia-warns-millions-could-be-infected-as-china-toll-passes-3000\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California declares state of emergency and German health minister labels outbreak a pandemicLatest updatesModelling in Australia has predicted a worst-case scenario where millions inside the country could become infected with Covid-19, as China\u2019s death&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1084,"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":[43,50,1069,914,451,88,512,299,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-italy","category-japan","category-medical-research","category-science","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15417","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\/1084"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15418,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15417\/revisions\/15418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}