{"id":17431,"date":"2020-04-22T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/apr\/22\/coronavirus-live-news-un-warns-of-biblical-famine-as-white-house-prepares-immigration-halt"},"modified":"2020-04-22T19:15:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T10:15:16","slug":"coronavirus-live-news-un-warns-of-biblical-famine-as-trump-reveals-60-day-immigration-halt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17431","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus live news: UN warns of &#8216;biblical&#8217; famine; first case seen in Palestinian refugees in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump to halt immigration for 60 days initially; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/apr\/21\/coronavirus-pandemic-will-cause-famine-of-biblical-proportions\">256m people could starve, says UN<\/a>; cases worldwide pass 2.5 million<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/22\/coronavirus-latest-22-april-at-a-glance\">Coronavirus latest: at a glance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/22\/fears-of-prolonged-coronavirus-downturn-amid-second-wave-of-us-cases\">Fears of prolonged downturn and second wave of US cases<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/22\/ramadan-in-a-time-of-plague-coronavirus-the-best-thing-is-to-stay-home-stay-quiet\">Ramadan in a time of plague: \u2018The best thing is to stay home, stay quiet\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/apr\/22\/uk-coronavirus-live-government-ppe-procurement-latest-updates\">UK coronavirus updates \u2013 live<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2020\/apr\/22\/australia-coronavirus-live-updates-nsw-victoria-qld-testing-schools-morrison-economy-latest-news-update\">Australia coronavirus updates &#8211; live<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-04-22T10:15:16.276Z\">11.15am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>Hello and happy Earth Day, this is <strong>Damien Gayle<\/strong> taking charge of the coronavirus live blog now, and taking you through the next eight hours or so of pandemic-related world news. <\/p>\n<p>As usual you can contact me at <a href=\"mailto:damien.gayle@theguardian.com\">damien.gayle@theguardian.com<\/a>, or via Twitter direct message to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/damiengayle\">@damiengayle<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-04-22T10:11:55.287Z\">11.11am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>Chinese doctors in <strong>Wuhan<\/strong>, where the coronavirus first emerged in December, say a growing number of cases in which people recover from the virus, but continue to test positive without showing symptoms, is one of their biggest challenges as the country moves into a new phase of its containment battle.<\/p>\n<p>Those patients all tested negative for the virus at some point after recovering, but then tested positive again, some up to 70 days later, the doctors said. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/apr\/22\/coronavirus-live-news-un-warns-of-biblical-famine-as-white-house-prepares-immigration-halt\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump to halt immigration for 60 days initially; 256m people could starve, says UN; cases worldwide pass 2.5 millionCoronavirus latest: at a glanceFears of prolonged downturn and second wave of US casesRamadan in a time of plague: \u2018The best thing is to&#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":[41,43,918,1069,914,512,916,212,299,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-biology","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","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\/17431","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=17431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17445,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17431\/revisions\/17445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}