{"id":18844,"date":"2020-05-31T13:16:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T04:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/may\/31\/coronavirus-live-news-global-cases-pass-6-million-as-brazil-sees-record-one-day-increase"},"modified":"2020-05-31T19:35:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T10:35:29","slug":"coronavirus-live-news-global-cases-pass-6-million-as-brazil-sees-record-one-day-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18844","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus live news: Brazil sees record increase as cases jump by 33,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/may\/31\/coronavirus-live-news-global-cases-pass-6-million-as-brazil-sees-record-one-day-increase?page=with:block-5ed323128f087122eca52aa0#block-5ed323128f087122eca52aa0\">Brazil becomes fourth worst country for deaths<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/may\/31\/coronavirus-live-news-global-cases-pass-6-million-as-brazil-sees-record-one-day-increase?page=with:block-5ed37ac48f08f5e373011bbb#block-5ed37ac48f08f5e373011bbb\">Spanish prime minister to seek two-week extension of state of emergency<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/may\/31\/coronavirus-live-news-global-cases-pass-6-million-as-brazil-sees-record-one-day-increase?page=with:block-5ed333518f084df971c8cd6c#block-5ed333518f084df971c8cd6c\">Pressure builds on South African president<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/31\/global-report-coronavirus-cases-pass-6-million-as-donald-trump-postpones-g7\">Global report: cases pass 6 million as Donald Trump postpones G7<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2020\/may\/30\/dominic-cummings-has-broken-covid-19-policy-trust-say-top-scientists\">Senior UK adviser has broken trust in policy, say top scientists<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/may\/31\/uk-coronavirus-live-boris-johnson-dominic-cummings-lockdown-latest-updates\">UK coronavirus updates &#8211; live<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-at-a-glance\/latest\">Coronavirus latest: at a glance<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-05-31T10:33:38.668Z\">11.33am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>Hi. This is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/carolinedavies\">Caroline Davies<\/a>. I am taking over the blog now and you can contact me on caroline.davies@theguardian.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-05-31T10:28:03.075Z\">11.28am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 The world has passed the milestone of six million confirmed coronavirus cases<\/strong>, with 6,048,384 confirmed infections worldwide, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker. The US is the worst-affected country in terms of cases and deaths, with 1,769,776 infections and 103,685 fatalities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 In a dramatic pivot, US president Donald Trump has postponed the Group of Seven summit that he wanted to hold in June.<\/strong> He will also expand the list of countries invited to attend the rescheduled event to include Australia, Russia, South Korea and India. Speaking to reporters on Air Force One during his return to Washington from Cape Canaveral in Florida, Trump said the G7 in its current format was a \u201cvery outdated group of countries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/may\/31\/coronavirus-live-news-global-cases-pass-6-million-as-brazil-sees-record-one-day-increase\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil becomes fourth worst country for deaths; Spanish prime minister to seek two-week extension of state of emergency; Pressure builds on South African presidentGlobal report: cases pass 6 million as Donald Trump postpones G7Senior UK adviser has bro&#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":[401,246,41,43,452,50,1069,221,914,512,916,212,419,299,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-brazil","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-europe","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-russia","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\/18844","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=18844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18852,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18844\/revisions\/18852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}