{"id":17585,"date":"2020-04-27T09:01:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T00:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/apr\/27\/coronavirus-live-news-boris-johnson-back-in-number-10-as-trump-denies-he-plans-to-fire-health-secretary"},"modified":"2020-04-27T20:47:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T11:47:05","slug":"coronavirus-live-news-boris-johnson-back-in-number-10-as-trump-denies-he-plans-to-fire-health-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17585","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus live news: confirmed Russian cases pass China&#8217;s total; Afghanistan records biggest one-day rise in cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran reports 96 more deaths; Spain\u2019s death toll shows slight rise; Germany calls for \u2018very careful\u2019 easing of lockdown; New Zealand says \u2018worst is over\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/27\/halt-destruction-nature-worse-pandemics-top-scientists\">Halt destruction of nature or suffer worse pandemics &#8211; scientist<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/27\/new-zealand-prepares-to-lift-strict-lockdown-after-eliminating-coronavirus\">New Zealand says virus \u2018eliminated\u2019 <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/27\/italy-unveils-plans-for-easing-of-coronavirus-lockdown-restrictions-conte\">Italy unveils plans for easing lockdown restrictions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/apr\/27\/uk-coronavirus-live-news-boris-johnson-back-at-work-amid-talk-of-easing-lockdown\">UK Covid-19 news &#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=\"2020-04-27T11:40:36.883Z\">12.40pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>Contrary to information in a graphic posted earlier on the blog, the <strong>Netherlands<\/strong> has put forward plans to begin an easing of its lockdown \u2013 and they are proving controversial. <\/p>\n<p>Primary schools and daycare centres are due to reopen in the country in early May, prime minister Mark Rutte announced last week, although class sizes may be cut to accommodate health guidelines, NLTimes reported. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a common sentiment among the general public that we should \u2018put a stop to it now!\u2019 But that is not really the goal here. We just want to make sure it spreads in a gradual way, so to speak, while keeping the risk to public health the healthcare system as low as possible. But we do not want to halt it completely, because in that case we would have had to opt for a complete lockdown. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hello, world. Here is the Dutch <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a> approach. Primary schools in The Netherlands are about to be gradually reopened with the explicit intent of allowing the virus to infect the populace, albeit &#8216;gradually&#8217;. Please share.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jyHpqk0Wcb\">pic.twitter.com\/jyHpqk0Wcb<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-04-27T11:27:41.425Z\">12.27pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>Hospitals in <strong>Belgium<\/strong> admitted the lowest number of Covid-19 patients since the start of the lockdown almost seven weeks ago, figures showed on Monday, a week before the country starts to ease restrictions, <strong>Reuters<\/strong> reports. <\/p>\n<p> The number of hospital admissions, a key number to monitor the disease\u2019s evolution, fell to 127 on Sunday, the lowest level since 18 March. Daily admissions peaked at over 600 at the end of March and have hovered at around 200 for the past week. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/apr\/27\/coronavirus-live-news-boris-johnson-back-in-number-10-as-trump-denies-he-plans-to-fire-health-secretary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran reports 96 more deaths; Spain\u2019s death toll shows slight rise; Germany calls for \u2018very careful\u2019 easing of lockdown; New Zealand says \u2018worst is over\u2019Halt destruction of nature or suffer worse pandemics &#8211; scientistNew Zealand says virus \u2018eliminated\u2019 &#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":[401,41,43,918,1069,914,512,916,212,299,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","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\/17585","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=17585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17608,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17585\/revisions\/17608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}