{"id":17928,"date":"2020-05-06T11:07:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T02:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/may\/06\/coronavirus-update-cases-uk-live-news-us-task-force-trump-covid-19-usa-world-europe-deaths-brazil-brasil-israel"},"modified":"2020-05-07T02:35:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T17:35:04","slug":"coronavirus-live-news-uk-deaths-highest-in-europe-as-trump-looks-to-disband-coronavirus-task-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17928","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus live news: pandemic threatens future of eurozone; Spain extends state of emergency again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/may\/06\/coronavirus-update-cases-uk-live-news-us-task-force-trump-covid-19-usa-world-europe-deaths-brazil-brasil-israel?page=with:block-5eb2c05d8f083d95648a2bb6#block-5eb2c05d8f083d95648a2bb6\">backtracks on threat<\/a> to wind down Covid-19 taskforce; Germany launches \u2018emergency brake\u2019 to stop local flare-ups<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/may\/06\/coronavirus-threatens-future-eurozone-brussels-economic-social-divisions-pandemic\">Coronavirus threatens future of eurozone<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/06\/angela-merkel-germany-states-rules-on-easing-coronavirus-lockdown\">Angela Merkel reins in German states with lockdown easing rules<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2020\/may\/06\/uk-coronavirus-live-furlough-scheme-government-ease-lockdown-pmqs-covid-19-latest-updates\">UK coronavirus updates \u2013 live<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/series\/us-politics-live\/latest\">US 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=\"2020-05-06T17:34:44.572Z\">6.34pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Spain\u2019s<\/strong> Socialist-led coalition government has secured another extension of the state of emergency, which will now last until 24 May.<\/p>\n<p>Congress\u2019s approval for the latest extension of the crisis powers comes after days of bitter rowing and frantic negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>The disease is being controlled and Spain is beginning to recover, but we must be careful and we need the legal and constitutional tool of this state of emergency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-05-06T17:30:17.728Z\">6.30pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>The <strong>UK<\/strong> will only consider support for individual aviation firms as a last resort, the housing minister <strong>Robert Jenrick<\/strong> has said. <\/p>\n<p><strong>British<\/strong> aerospace and aviation firms must look at existing government schemes and self-help measures before individual packages for companies are considered, he said. <\/p>\n<p>We want to support the aviation sector in any way that we can. <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve said before that we\u2019re willing to consider situations where we would support individual firms, but obviously only when they\u2019ve worked through the existing government schemes and other ways in which they might be able to raise finance commercially, or through existing shareholders.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/may\/06\/coronavirus-update-cases-uk-live-news-us-task-force-trump-covid-19-usa-world-europe-deaths-brazil-brasil-israel\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump backtracks on threat to wind down Covid-19 taskforce; Germany launches \u2018emergency brake\u2019 to stop local flare-upsCoronavirus threatens future of eurozoneAngela Merkel reins in German states with lockdown easing rulesUK coronavirus updates \u2013&#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":[401,246,41,43,918,50,1069,914,512,916,212,299,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-biology","category-china","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\/17928","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=17928"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17946,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17928\/revisions\/17946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}