{"id":19002,"date":"2020-06-05T13:12:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T04:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/05\/global-report-south-africa-records-biggest-jump-in-covid-19-cases-since-pandemic-hit"},"modified":"2020-06-05T13:12:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T04:12:44","slug":"global-report-south-africa-records-biggest-jump-in-covid-19-cases-since-pandemic-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19002","title":{"rendered":"Global report: South Africa records biggest jump in Covid-19 cases since pandemic hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil surges past 600,000 cases as death toll jumps Italy\u2019s; New York governor urges protesters to be tested; Turkey imposes weekend lockdown<\/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><strong>South Africa<\/strong> has reported a record jump in new Covid-19 cases \u2013 nearly 80% higher than its previous daily record \u2013 as the the country gradually eases its lockdown. The surge came as Brazil overtook Italy to become the third worst affected nation for deaths, behind the US and the UK.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa recorded 3,267 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday, the biggest jump since the pandemic began. The country is the worst hit in sub-Saharan Africa and has nearly a quarter of all cases on the continent, with 40,792 infections. With 848 deaths, it ranks only second to Egypt for fatalities (1,126).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/05\/global-report-south-africa-records-biggest-jump-in-covid-19-cases-since-pandemic-hit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil surges past 600,000 cases as death toll jumps Italy\u2019s; New York governor urges protesters to be tested; Turkey imposes weekend lockdownCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSouth Africa has reported a record jump in new Cov&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":378,"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":[401,246,452,50,1069,1405,1298,532,1017,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-americas","category-brazil","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-mexico","category-new-york","category-south-africa","category-turkey","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\/19002","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\/378"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19003,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19002\/revisions\/19003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}