{"id":19753,"date":"2020-06-27T14:38:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T05:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/27\/global-report-india-covid-19-cases-pass-500000-as-us-records-highest-daily-increase"},"modified":"2020-06-28T03:09:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:09:03","slug":"global-report-india-covid-19-cases-pass-500000-as-us-records-highest-daily-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19753","title":{"rendered":"Global report: India Covid-19 cases pass 500,000 as Texas revives lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US reports highest daily new infections as EU says it may exclude US from list of \u2018safe countries\u2019; Brazil records nearly 47,000 new cases<\/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>India passed half a million coronavirus infections as experts advised the government to prioritise reducing mortality over containing the spread of Covid-19, while in the US surging infections prompted two of the biggest states to bring back coronavirus controls.<\/p>\n<p>Texas became the first state to revive lockdown measures, as new daily infections surged to nearly 6,000 and a senior official warned that hospitals risked being overwhelmed in the near future. \u201cWe opened too quickly,\u201d Lina Hidalgo, judge for Harris county which includes Houston, said <a href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/stay-home-work-safe-order-lina-hidalgo-coronavirus-texas-reopen\/6270984\/\">at a press conference<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/27\/global-report-india-covid-19-cases-pass-500000-as-us-records-highest-daily-increase\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US reports highest daily new infections as EU says it may exclude US from list of \u2018safe countries\u2019; Brazil records nearly 47,000 new casesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia passed half a million coronavirus infections as &#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":[452,50,1069,530,526,402,62,914,451,746,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brazil","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-european-union","category-france","category-greece","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-italy","category-spain","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\/19753","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=19753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19774,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19753\/revisions\/19774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}