{"id":17000,"date":"2020-04-09T10:38:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T01:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/apr\/09\/coronavirus-live-news-global-cases-uk-us-usa-worst-daily-death-toll-latest-updates"},"modified":"2020-04-09T20:02:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T11:02:58","slug":"coronavirus-live-news-global-cases-pass-1-5m-as-uk-and-us-suffer-worst-daily-death-tolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17000","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus live news: Iran deaths pass 4,000 as US insists isolation measures are working after record daily toll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boris Johnson still in intensive care; US protective equipment stockpile nearly empty; virus could push 500m people into poverty<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/09\/the-cluster-effect-how-social-gatherings-were-rocket-fuel-for-coronavirus\">The cluster effect: how social gatherings were rocket fuel for coronavirus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/09\/coronavirus-latest-at-a-glance\">Coronavirus latest: at a glance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2020\/apr\/09\/uk-coronavirus-live-lockdown-extended-boris-johnson-in-hospital-covid-19-latest-updates\">UK coronavirus updates \u2013 live<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2020\/apr\/09\/australia-coronavirus-update-live-ruby-princess-nsw-victoria-qld-parliament-jobkeeper-packages-latest-news-updates\">Australia coronavirus updates \u2013 live<\/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=\"2020-04-09T11:02:58.173Z\">12.02pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>Wednesday marked the 100th day since China, on 31 December 2019, first reported cases of pneumonia caused by a hitherto unknown coronavirus to the World Health Organization. Since then there have been over 1.3m confirmed cases, and over 75,000 deaths. Billions of people are confined to their homes and stock markets have plummeted<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian\u2019s visuals team has put together an interactive graphic showing how the pandemic has spread across the globe, from the very beginnings of the outbreak in Wuhan. It\u2019s worth a look. <\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ng-interactive\/2020\/apr\/09\/how-coronavirus-spread-across-the-globe-visualised\">How coronavirus spread across the globe &#8211; visualised<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-04-09T11:00:27.126Z\">12.00pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Bangladesh<\/strong> has imposed a \u201ccomplete lockdown\u201d in its Cox\u2019s Bazaar district, which is home to over a million Rohingya refugees from neighbouring Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p>The area \u201cwill be put under complete lockdown &#8211; no entry, no exit &#8211; until the situation improves,\u201d a government directive issued late on Wednesday said, according to <strong>AFP<\/strong>. No cases have been confirmed in the camps but one infection has been recorded nearby.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/apr\/09\/coronavirus-live-news-global-cases-uk-us-usa-worst-daily-death-toll-latest-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boris Johnson still in intensive care; US protective equipment stockpile nearly empty; virus could push 500m people into povertyThe cluster effect: how social gatherings were rocket fuel for coronavirusCoronavirus latest: at a glanceUK coronavirus upda&#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":[401,41,50,1069,914,88,512,916,212,299,222,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-japan","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-science","category-south-korea","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\/17000","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=17000"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17023,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17000\/revisions\/17023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}