{"id":16703,"date":"2020-04-01T14:11:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T05:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/apr\/01\/coronavirus-live-news-us-deaths-could-reach-240000-un-secretary-general-crisis-worst-since-second-world-war-us-uk-europe-latest-updates"},"modified":"2020-04-01T18:23:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T09:23:03","slug":"coronavirus-live-news-us-deaths-could-reach-240000-as-un-says-world-faces-worst-crisis-since-ww2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16703","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus live news: US deaths could reach 240,000 as UN says world faces worst crisis since WW2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US has one 1 in 5 cases globally; global cases pass 860,000; record daily fatalities in UK, France, Spain and Russia<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/31\/donald-trump-coronavirus-briefing-painful-us-deaths\">White House officials predict up to 240,000 US coronavirus deaths<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2020\/apr\/01\/uk-coronavirus-live-nhs-testing-covid-19-updates-latest\">UK coronavirus \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2020\/apr\/01\/coronavirus-australia-update-live-news-nsw-victoria-queensland-qld-subsidy-wages-jobkeeper-scott-morrison-covid19-fines-latest-updates\">Australia coronavirus \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/apr\/01\/extreme-coronavirus-lockdown-controls-raise-fears-for-worlds-poorest\">The most extreme lockdown controls around the world<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-04-01T09:23:03.170Z\">10.23am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Japan<\/strong> is struggling to hold the line against the growing threat of the coronavirus pandemic, the country\u2019s prime minister has warned, with a risk of a surge in Covid-19 cases. <\/p>\n<p>So far the country has 2,200 coronavirus cases and 66 deaths, relatively few compared to other nations, but infections are rising. There were 105 reported on Wednesday, 65 of them in the capital, Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>Many experts expressed very strong sense of crisis and opinions over the spread of infections in Tokyo and the current state of medical preparedness. We must prevent infections from spreading further no matter what. We have come to the edge of edges, to the very brink.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-04-01T09:07:58.118Z\">10.07am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>A smartphone app designed to keep tabs on people who have been ordered to stay at home because of the coronavirus has been unveiled in <strong>Russia<\/strong>, as the country expands its lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>In Moscow \u2013 the centre of Russia\u2019s Covid-19 outbreak where a partial lockdown was announced on Sunday \u2013 authorities have developed a smartphone app for residents who have contracted the virus to download that would allow them to be monitored, Reuters report.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/apr\/01\/coronavirus-live-news-us-deaths-could-reach-240000-un-secretary-general-crisis-worst-since-second-world-war-us-uk-europe-latest-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US has one 1 in 5 cases globally; global cases pass 860,000; record daily fatalities in UK, France, Spain and RussiaWhite House officials predict up to 240,000 US coronavirus deathsUK coronavirus \u2013 live updatesAustralia coronavirus \u2013 live updatesThe mo&#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":[401,41,918,50,1069,221,914,512,916,212,419,299,532,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-asia-pacific","category-biology","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-europe","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-russia","category-science","category-south-africa","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\/16703","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=16703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16719,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16703\/revisions\/16719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}