{"id":18621,"date":"2020-05-24T10:45:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T01:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/may\/24\/coronavirus-live-news-6m-australians-download-tracing-app-as-experts-fear-second-wave-in-us-summer"},"modified":"2020-05-24T22:39:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T13:39:39","slug":"coronavirus-live-news-6m-australians-download-tracing-app-as-experts-fear-second-wave-in-us-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18621","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus live news: Wuhan lab had bat viruses but not Covid-19 strain; Russia reports highest daily death toll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lab says none of three bat viruses match Covid-19; new witnesses cast doubt on UK advisor\u2019s lockdown claims; WHO says pandemic \u2018taking different pathway\u2019 in Africa<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/24\/global-report-wuhan-lab-says-its-bat-strains-were-not-covid-19-as-us-nears-10000-deaths\">Wuhan lab says its bat strains were not Covid-19 as US nears 100,00 deaths<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2020\/may\/23\/new-witnesses-cast-doubt-on-dominic-cummingss-lockdown-claims\">New witnesses cast doubt on Dominic Cummings\u2019s lockdown claims<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/may\/24\/uk-coronavirus-live-dominic-cummings-under-intense-pressure-over-lockdown-breaches\">UK coronavirus updates &#8211; live<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/24\/coronavirus-latest-24-may-at-a-glance\">Coronavirus latest: at a glance<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-05-24T13:37:54.316Z\">2.37pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>Here is <strong>Benjamin Netanyahu<\/strong>, the Israel prime minister, wearing a face mask inside court as his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/24\/netanyahu-in-the-dock-image-of-israeli-pm-on-trial-may-haunt-him-for-ever\">high-profile corruption trial<\/a> opens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-05-24T13:27:01.460Z\">2.27pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Istanbul has become the world\u2019s largest diaspora hub for Uighurs fleeing Chinese persecution.<\/strong> They are celebrating Eid, but for many the pain of being away from their homeland is acute. <strong>Bethan McKernan <\/strong>has this report.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating the Muslim holiday is a freedom G\u00fcl and her four children did not have at home in China\u2019s western Xinjiang province, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/uighurs\">Uigh<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/uighurs\">ur<\/a> homeland, where over the last few years the authorities have suffocated the ethnic minority\u2019s cultural practices and turned the entire region into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/18\/china-detains-uighurs-for-growing-beards-or-visiting-foreign-websites-leak-reveals\">police state<\/a> subject to strict surveillance even inside their homes. Up to 1 million people have disappeared into re-education camps in what China says is a necessary measure to stamp out extremism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI miss my homeland and my family every day. I cry a lot with the pain,\u201d she said at her home in Istanbul\u2019s Zeytinburnu neighbourhood. \u201cI love life in Istanbul. I wish they could be here too. My children have freedom here we could not imagine before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/24\/fearful-uighurs-celebrate-eid-in-exile-in-turkey\">&#8216;I miss my homeland&#8217;: fearful Uighurs celebrate Eid in exile in Turkey<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/may\/24\/coronavirus-live-news-6m-australians-download-tracing-app-as-experts-fear-second-wave-in-us-summer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lab says none of three bat viruses match Covid-19; new witnesses cast doubt on UK advisor\u2019s lockdown claims; WHO says pandemic \u2018taking different pathway\u2019 in AfricaWuhan lab says its bat strains were not Covid-19 as US nears 100,00 deathsNew witnesses c&#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":[401,246,41,43,918,1069,914,512,916,212,299,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-americas","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\/18621","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=18621"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18644,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18621\/revisions\/18644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}