{"id":17218,"date":"2020-04-16T09:08:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T00:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/apr\/16\/coronavirus-live-news-cases-worldwide-top-2-million-trump-doubts-china-death-toll"},"modified":"2020-04-17T00:29:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T15:29:56","slug":"coronavirus-live-news-trump-casts-doubt-on-china-death-toll-as-cases-worldwide-top-2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17218","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus live news: 1m tests to be rolled out across Africa, as WHO warns over Europe situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Trump casts doubt on China death toll; WHO chief hopes US will remain a \u2018friend\u2019; almost 700 test positive on French aircraft carrier<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/16\/coronavirus-latest-at-a-glance-\">Coronavirus latest: at a glance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/15\/trump-us-coronavirus-theory-china\">Trump fans flames of Chinese lab theory during daily briefing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/au?INTCMP=CE_AU\">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=\"2020-04-16T15:23:45.793Z\">4.23pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Belgium<\/strong> has begun testing more than 210,000 residents and staff at nursing homes, which account for about half of the country\u2019s coronavirus-related deaths, <strong>Reuters<\/strong> reports. <\/p>\n<p> Belgium is one of only a few countries in Europe that includes all non-hospitalised people who displayed symptoms of the disease in its daily tally of Covid-19 deaths, even if they had not been confirmed as having had it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-04-16T15:16:59.982Z\">4.16pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>The public health agency in <strong>Sweden<\/strong> has reported another 130 deaths from coronavirus, fewer than the day before, bringing the total death toll in the country to 1,333.<\/p>\n<p>So far the country has recorded 12,540 confirmed cases of coronavirus. 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