{"id":17011,"date":"2020-04-09T14:10:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T05:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/09\/global-coronavirus-cases-near-15m-as-fresh-who-row-erupts"},"modified":"2020-04-09T14:10:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T05:10:24","slug":"global-coronavirus-cases-near-1-5m-as-fresh-who-row-erupts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17011","title":{"rendered":"Global coronavirus cases near 1.5m as fresh WHO row erupts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US officials voice hope that isolation measures are working amid accusations of racism in fight between Taiwan and WHO<\/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>Global cases of Covid-19 approached 1.5 million, as both the US and the UK recorded their deadliest day yet in the pandemic, and a fresh World Health Organization row erupted.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the grim US death toll for Tuesday \u2013 1,858 in total, including 806 in New York City \u2013 White House taskforce officials said on Wednesday night <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/08\/us-says-mitigation-efforts-are-working-raising-hopes-of-defying-worst-case-scenario\">there were signs isolation measures were working<\/a> and the death toll may not be as high as the 100,000 and 240,000 feared.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/09\/global-coronavirus-cases-near-15m-as-fresh-who-row-erupts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US officials voice hope that isolation measures are working amid accusations of racism in fight between Taiwan and WHOCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageGlobal cases of Covid-19 approached 1.5 million, as both the US and the UK&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[41,1069,74,52,47,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-taiwan","category-uk-news","category-us-news","category-world-health-organization","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\/17011","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17032,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17011\/revisions\/17032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}