{"id":16963,"date":"2020-04-08T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T02:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/apr\/08\/coronavirus-live-news-us-trump-threatens-who-funding-uk-boris-johnson-global-cases-latest-updates"},"modified":"2020-04-08T16:38:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T07:38:14","slug":"coronavirus-live-news-trump-threatens-to-stop-who-funding-as-global-cases-pass-1-4-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16963","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus live news: China&#8217;s Wuhan city reopens as Boris Johnson spends second night in intensive care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists predict UK will be worst-hit country in Europe; Trump threatens to stop WHO funding; Global cases pass 1.4 million<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2020\/apr\/07\/boris-johnson-not-on-a-ventilator-in-intensive-care-says-gove\">Boris Johnson \u2018stable\u2019 in intensive care and not on ventilator, says No 10<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/apr\/08\/australia-coronavirus-live-updates-nsw-victoria-qld-parliament-jobkeeper-latest-news-update\">Australia coronavirus updates \u2013 live<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/08\/coronavirus-latest-at-a-glance\">At a glance: latest developments<\/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=\"2020-04-08T07:38:14.291Z\">8.38am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>French flagship military aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle, is on its way back to port after staff on board showed symptoms in line with those of the coronavirus. <\/p>\n<p><strong>France<\/strong>\u2019s armed forces ministry said on Wednesday that around 40 staff members were currently under strict medical observation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-04-08T07:27:23.955Z\">8.27am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>Twitter chief executive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/jack-dorsey\">Jack Dorsey<\/a> has pledged to donate $1bn (\u00a3800m) to fund coronavirus research. <\/p>\n<p>Dorsey, who co-founded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/twitter\">Twitter<\/a> in 2006 and went on to found payments company Square, tweeted on Tuesday that he was donating $1bn of Square shares to a charitable fund, called Start Small, to \u201cfund global Covid-19 relief\u201d.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m moving $1B of my Square equity (~28% of my wealth) to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/startsmall?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#startsmall<\/a> LLC to fund global COVID-19 relief. After we disarm this pandemic, the focus will shift to girl\u2019s health and education, and UBI. It will operate transparently, all flows tracked here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hVkUczDQmz\">https:\/\/t.co\/hVkUczDQmz<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2020\/apr\/07\/twitter-chief-to-donate-quarter-of-his-fortune-to-coronavirus-fight\">Twitter chief to donate quarter of his fortune to coronavirus fight<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/apr\/08\/coronavirus-live-news-us-trump-threatens-who-funding-uk-boris-johnson-global-cases-latest-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists predict UK will be worst-hit country in Europe; Trump threatens to stop WHO funding; Global cases pass 1.4 millionBoris Johnson \u2018stable\u2019 in intensive care and not on ventilator, says No 10Australia coronavirus updates \u2013 liveAt a glance: late&#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":[401,41,1069,221,914,212,299,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-europe","category-infectious-diseases","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-science","category-uk-news","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\/16963","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=16963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16969,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16963\/revisions\/16969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}