{"id":17079,"date":"2020-04-12T00:44:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T15:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/11\/coronavirus-us-records-2000-dead-in-a-day-as-italy-and-india-extend-lockdowns"},"modified":"2020-04-12T00:44:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T15:44:23","slug":"coronavirus-us-records-2000-dead-in-a-day-as-italy-and-india-extend-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17079","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: US records 2,000 dead in a day as Italy and India extend lockdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain to let some non-essential staff return to work, but Italians shut in until at least 3 May<\/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>The US has become the first country to record more than 2,000 deaths from coronavirus in a single day, and over the Easter weekend its overall toll is likely to surpass that of Italy, making it the worst-hit country in the world.<\/p>\n<p>White House experts said there were some signs the spread of the disease may be levelling off, but the US now has more than half a million confirmed infections and in the last 24 hours <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/11\/us-coronavirus-death-toll\">2,108 people died<\/a>. Hotspots include New York, Detroit, Louisiana and the capital, Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/11\/coronavirus-us-records-2000-dead-in-a-day-as-italy-and-india-extend-lockdowns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain to let some non-essential staff return to work, but Italians shut in until at least 3 MayCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe US has become the first country to record more than 2,000 deaths from coronavirus in a single&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"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":[41,50,1069,221,62,451,746,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-europe","category-india","category-italy","category-spain","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\/17079","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17087,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17079\/revisions\/17087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}