{"id":16741,"date":"2020-04-02T10:23:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T01:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/apr\/02\/coronavirus-live-news-global-cases-latest-updates"},"modified":"2020-04-02T20:34:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T11:34:13","slug":"coronavirus-live-news-global-cases-near-million-mark-as-us-records-highest-daily-death-toll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16741","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus live news: Spain death toll passes 10,000 with record single-day rise of 950"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran passes 50,000 cases and 3,136 deaths; Russia and Afghanistan record single-day records; Cambodian government accused of using pandemic to assert absolute power<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/02\/coronavirus-at-a-glance\">At a glance: summary of key events<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/02\/asian-countries-face-possible-second-wave-of-coronavirus-infections\">Asian countries face possible second wave of infections<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/apr\/01\/trump-coronavirus-stockpile-ppe-briefing\">US stockpile of protective equipment \u2018nearly gone\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2020\/apr\/02\/uk-coronavirus-live-news-updates-covid-19-testing\">UK coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all of our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-04-02T11:32:33.652Z\">12.32pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>More than a half of Britons think Prime Minister <strong>Boris Johnson\u2019s government<\/strong> was too slow to order a lockdown to slow the spread of coronavirus, according an opinion poll published on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Over half of Britons believe the Government was too slow to enforce <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/lockdown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#lockdown<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8O3xnUfd0c\">https:\/\/t.co\/8O3xnUfd0c<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VvHNiXOqla\">pic.twitter.com\/VvHNiXOqla<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-04-02T11:29:02.832Z\">12.29pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>Zambia has recorded its first death from coronavirus, and the number of confirmed cases has risen by three to 39, Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters reports: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe same patient had an underlying chronic respiratory disorder and a history of travel to South Africa and contact with some cohorts who travelled to high-risk countries prior to his admission,\u201d Chilufya said at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Chilufya said the three new cases registered in the southern African country had all got the virus from people who had travelled abroad.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/apr\/02\/coronavirus-live-news-global-cases-latest-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran passes 50,000 cases and 3,136 deaths; Russia and Afghanistan record single-day records; Cambodian government accused of using pandemic to assert absolute powerAt a glance: summary of key eventsAsian countries face possible second wave of infection&#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":[401,41,50,1069,221,914,88,512,916,212,419,299,532,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-europe","category-infectious-diseases","category-japan","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-russia","category-science","category-south-africa","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\/16741","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=16741"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16775,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16741\/revisions\/16775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}