{"id":17455,"date":"2020-04-23T10:55:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T01:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/apr\/23\/coronavirus-live-news-us-states-start-to-reopen-as-detained-wuhan-journalist-reappears"},"modified":"2020-04-23T18:02:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T09:02:41","slug":"coronavirus-live-news-us-states-start-to-reopen-as-detained-wuhan-journalist-reappears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17455","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus live news: US states start to reopen as world set for \u2018unprecedented\u2019 recession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World has \u2018a long way to go\u2019, warns WHO chief; Singapore cases pass 10,000; first case among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-at-a-glance\/latest\">Coronavirus latest: at a glance<\/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\/23\/coronavirus-live-news-update-covid-19-face-masks\">UK Covid-19 updates &#8211; live blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/23\/coronavirus-latest-at-a-glance\">Australia coronavirus updates \u2013 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=\"2020-04-23T09:02:01.369Z\">10.02am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>China said on Thursday it would donate a further $30 million to the World Health Organization (WHO), which is seeking more than $1 billion to fund its battle against the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 180,000 people worldwide, Reuters reports. <\/p>\n<p>The pledge comes about a week after U.S. President Donald Trump suspended funding to the WHO and accused the Geneva-based organisation of promoting Chinese \u201cdisinformation\u201d about the virus, which emerged in the central city of Wuhan last year.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">China has decided to donate additional $30 million in cash to WHO to support its global fight against <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a>, in particular strengthening developing countries&#8217; health systems. China already donated $20 million in cash to WHO on March 11.<\/p>\n<p>I hope the U.S. believes that this an important investment, not just to help others, but for the U.S. to stay safe also.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-04-23T08:51:12.592Z\">9.51am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>In the UK, <strong>vaccine trials on humans<\/strong> lead by Oxford University are due to start on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The <strong>New York Times<\/strong> says that Germany has joined the race for a vaccine, giving the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/reuters\/2020\/04\/22\/world\/europe\/22reuters-health-coronavirus-vaccine-biontech.html\">green light to human trials of potential vaccines<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Germany gave the green light for human trials of potential coronavirus vaccines developed by German biotech company BioNTech, which is racing teams in Germany, the U.S. and China to develop an agent that will stop the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The trial, only the fourth worldwide of a vaccine targeting the virus, will be initially conducted on 200 healthy people, with more subjects, including some at higher risk from the disease, to be included in a second stage, German vaccines regulator the Paul Ehrlich Institut said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/apr\/23\/coronavirus-live-news-us-states-start-to-reopen-as-detained-wuhan-journalist-reappears\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World has \u2018a long way to go\u2019, warns WHO chief; Singapore cases pass 10,000; first case among Palestinian refugees in LebanonCoronavirus latest: at a glanceRamadan in a time of plague: \u2018The best thing is to stay home, stay quiet\u2019UK Covid-19 updates &#8211; li&#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":[41,43,1069,221,914,212,299,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-europe","category-infectious-diseases","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-science","category-uk-news","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17455","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=17455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17463,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17455\/revisions\/17463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}