{"id":16386,"date":"2020-03-26T22:35:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T13:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/26\/spanish-coronavirus-deaths-slow-as-world-nears-500000-cases"},"modified":"2020-03-27T03:38:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T18:38:30","slug":"spanish-coronavirus-deaths-slow-as-world-nears-500000-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16386","title":{"rendered":"Spain defends response to coronavirus as global cases exceed 500,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China shuts its borders to foreign visitors, and Russia closes all bars and restaurants<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Spanish government has defended its response to the coronavirus pandemic as the death rate in the country slowed for the first time in a week, insisting its actions have always been firmly rooted in scientific advice.<\/p>\n<p>Spain recorded 655 deaths from Covid-19 over the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 4,089, the health ministry said on Thursday. The number of confirmed cases stands at 56,188.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/26\/spanish-coronavirus-deaths-slow-as-world-nears-500000-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China shuts its borders to foreign visitors, and Russia closes all bars and restaurantsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Spanish government has defended its response to the coronavirus pandemic as the death rate in the cou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1156,"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":[46,41,50,1069,221,48,448,451,88,869,212,419,61,746,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-europe","category-hong-kong","category-iran","category-italy","category-japan","category-lebanon","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-russia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-spain","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\/16386","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\/1156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16396,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16386\/revisions\/16396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}