{"id":18333,"date":"2020-05-17T21:48:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T12:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/17\/covid-19-cases-in-brazil-surpass-italy-as-virus-surges-in-latin-america"},"modified":"2020-05-17T21:48:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T12:48:52","slug":"covid-19-cases-in-brazil-surpass-italy-as-virus-surges-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18333","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 cases in Brazil surpass Italy as virus surges in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico and Peru struggle to contain outbreaks while deaths in Spain fall to two-month low<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Confirmed Covid-19 cases in Brazil have surpassed the total in Italy and are surging in Mexico and Peru as Latin America struggles to contain its fast-growing coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Spain announced that 87 people had died there in the 24 hours to Sunday morning, the first time the figure has been below 100 in more than two months and a sign the virus is being contained in western Europe as it continues to spread aggressively in Russia, India and parts of Africa.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/17\/covid-19-cases-in-brazil-surpass-italy-as-virus-surges-in-latin-america\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico and Peru struggle to contain outbreaks while deaths in Spain fall to two-month lowCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageConfirmed Covid-19 cases in Brazil have surpassed the total in Italy and are surging in Mexico and Peru&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1314,"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":[246,452,1069,221,402,62,1080,1405,419,61,746,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-brazil","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-europe","category-greece","category-india","category-jair-bolsonaro","category-mexico","category-russia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-spain","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\/18333","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\/1314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18334,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18333\/revisions\/18334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}