{"id":15459,"date":"2020-03-06T11:22:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T02:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/mar\/06\/coronavirus-update-latest-live-news-symptoms-cases-global-infection-rate-uk-usa-australia-italy-china-updates"},"modified":"2020-03-07T03:01:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T18:01:11","slug":"coronavirus-latest-updates-global-infections-climb-towards-100000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15459","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus latest updates: all countries must make containing outbreak &#8216;highest priority&#8217;, says WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First cases reported in Vatican City, Peru and Serbia, plus 163 cases confirmed in the UK, including two British Airways staff<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/06\/chinese-schools-reopen-as-coronavirus-cases-in-europe-continue-to-rise\">Cases pass 100,000 globally as Iran threatens force to restrict spread<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/06\/more-scary-than-coronavirus-south-koreas-health-alerts-expose-private-lives\">\u2018More scary than coronavirus\u2019: South Korea alerts expose private lives<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/05\/has-covid-19-mutated-into-a-more-deadly-strain-busting-the-coronavirus-myths\">Has Covid-19 mutated? Busting the myths<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/06\/coronavirus-facts-what-is-the-mortality-rate-and-is-there-a-cure-covid-19\">Essential guide: can I catch it on public transport, and how sick will I get?<\/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=\"2020-03-06T18:01:11.496Z\">6.01pm <span class=\"timezone\">GMT<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>Demand for hand sanitiser has reached fever pitch in the <strong>UK<\/strong>, with one hospital reporting that and sanitising gel is being stolen by visitors on a daily basis. According to a report by the PA News Agency:<\/p>\n<p>Bosses at Northampton General Hospital said sanitising gel had been disappearing from the ends of ward beds \u201cevery single day\u201d this week. <\/p>\n<p>Three wall-mounted dispensers have been ripped off, while visitors have used the hospital\u2019s supply of sanitiser to \u201ctop up\u201d their own bottles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-03-06T17:54:20.874Z\">5.54pm <span class=\"timezone\">GMT<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>A lot of people have been asking, so here is the answer.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/mar\/06\/coronavirus-update-latest-live-news-symptoms-cases-global-infection-rate-uk-usa-australia-italy-china-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First cases reported in Vatican City, Peru and Serbia, plus 163 cases confirmed in the UK, including two British Airways staffCases pass 100,000 globally as Iran threatens force to restrict spread\u2018More scary than coronavirus\u2019: South Korea alerts expose&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"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":[50,1069,221,402,914,448,512,299,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-europe","category-greece","category-infectious-diseases","category-iran","category-medical-research","category-science","category-uk-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\/15459","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\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15459"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15491,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15459\/revisions\/15491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}