{"id":15551,"date":"2020-03-08T14:45:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T05:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/08\/coronavirus-italy-quarantine-virus-reaches-washington-dc"},"modified":"2020-03-08T16:47:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T07:47:55","slug":"coronavirus-quarter-of-italys-population-put-in-quarantine-as-virus-reaches-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15551","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: quarter of Italy&#8217;s population put in quarantine as virus reaches Washington DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giuseppe Conte signs decree early on Sunday after 1,200 cases confirmed in 24 hours <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/mar\/08\/coronavirus-live-updates-third-death-in-australia-as-cases-reach-more-than-70\">Coronavirus: live updates<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Italy has formally locked down more than a quarter of its population in a bid to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, as the outbreak reached Washington DC and a political convention attended by Donald Trump and Mike Pence.<\/p>\n<p>More than 5,800 cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Italy, after an alarming increase of more than 1,200 in a single 24-hour period. Two hundred and thirty-three people have died. Almost 100 countries are now responding to outbreaks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/08\/coronavirus-italy-quarantine-virus-reaches-washington-dc\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giuseppe Conte signs decree early on Sunday after 1,200 cases confirmed in 24 hours Coronavirus: live updates Italy has formally locked down more than a quarter of its population in a bid to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, as the outbreak rea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1098,"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":[41,50,1069,221,914,451,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-europe","category-infectious-diseases","category-italy","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\/15551","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\/1098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15560,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15551\/revisions\/15560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}