{"id":19821,"date":"2020-06-29T15:18:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T06:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/29\/global-report-deaths-from-covid-19-pass-500000"},"modified":"2020-06-29T15:18:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T06:18:09","slug":"global-report-deaths-from-coronavirus-pass-half-a-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19821","title":{"rendered":"Global report: deaths from coronavirus pass half a million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten million test positive in the space of six months; Melbourne records highest daily jump in locally acquired cases; some US states reimpose restrictions<\/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>The coronavirus pandemic has killed half a million people in just over six months, with the toll passing the sombre milestone of 500,000 known deaths on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) was first alerted by authorities in <strong>China<\/strong> about a string of pneumonia-like cases in Wuhan, a city of 11 million people, on 31 December 2019. Since then, 10 million people have tested positive for the virus, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/01\/countries-confirmed-cases-coronavirus-200125070959786.html\">in at least 188 countries and territories worldwide<\/a>, according to analysis by al-Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/29\/global-report-deaths-from-covid-19-pass-500000\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten million test positive in the space of six months; Melbourne records highest daily jump in locally acquired cases; some US states reimpose restrictionsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe coronavirus pandemic has killed ha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1404,"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":[43,50,1069,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-uk-news","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19821","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\/1404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19822,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19821\/revisions\/19822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}