{"id":20449,"date":"2020-07-13T02:04:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T17:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/jul\/12\/the-guardian-view-on-covid-19-worldwide-on-the-march"},"modified":"2020-07-13T02:04:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T17:04:58","slug":"the-guardian-view-on-covid-19-worldwide-on-the-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20449","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian view on Covid-19 worldwide: on the march"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Infections are accelerating in largely untouched countries and those which hoped they had come through the worst. But there is hope<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of the world sort of sat by and watched with almost a sense of detachment and bemusement,\u201d said Helen Clark, appointed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/10\/helen-clark-who-coronavirus-inquiry-aims-to-stop-the-world-being-blindsided-again\" title=\"\">investigate<\/a> the World Health Organization\u2019s handling of the pandemic. The former New Zealand prime minister was describing the early weeks of the outbreak, and the sense that coronavirus was a problem \u201cover there\u201d. The failure to recognise our interconnection created complacency even as the death toll rose.<\/p>\n<p>It took three months for the first million people to fall sick \u2013 but only a week to record the last million of the nearly 13 million cases now reported worldwide. As England emerges from lockdown at an unwary pace, Covid-19 is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/09\/covid-19-pandemic-accelerating-says-who-as-review-panel-named\" title=\"\">accelerating<\/a> globally. The WHO has reported a record surge of a quarter of a million cases in a single day. The death toll is over half a million people and rising fast.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/jul\/12\/the-guardian-view-on-covid-19-worldwide-on-the-march\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infections are accelerating in largely untouched countries and those which hoped they had come through the worst. But there is hope\u201cMost of the world sort of sat by and watched with almost a sense of detachment and bemusement,\u201d said Helen Clark, appoin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"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":[401,246,41,43,452,1069,415,221,1335,346,48,62,914,448,1080,1086,212,1347,532,61,746,1014,47,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-brazil","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-donald-trump","category-europe","category-hassan-rouhani","category-health","category-hong-kong","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-iran","category-jair-bolsonaro","category-kenya","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-serbia","category-south-africa","category-south-and-central-asia","category-spain","category-syria","category-us-news","category-world-health-organization","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\/20449","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\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20450,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20449\/revisions\/20450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}