{"id":20695,"date":"2020-07-19T01:54:11","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T16:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/18\/coronavirus-global-report-who-china-iran-australia-france-un-covid"},"modified":"2020-07-19T01:54:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T16:54:11","slug":"global-report-who-reports-record-daily-increase-of-coronavirus-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20695","title":{"rendered":"Global report: WHO reports record daily increase of coronavirus cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s president estimates 25m could be infected; mass health screenings in Xinjiang; Australian parliament suspended<\/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>Iran<\/strong>\u2019s president says an estimated 25 million people in the country could be infected with the coronavirus, way above the country\u2019s official rate, as the World Health Organization reported a record daily increase of new cases of more 270,000.<\/p>\n<p>Hassan Rouhani told a summit of the country\u2019s coronavirus taskforce on Saturday that the health ministry estimated about 25 million Iranians might have contracted the virus and warned up to 35 million more might become infected in the months ahead.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/18\/coronavirus-global-report-who-china-iran-australia-france-un-covid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s president estimates 25m could be infected; mass health screenings in Xinjiang; Australian parliament suspendedCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIran\u2019s president says an estimated 25 million people in the country could b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"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":[43,50,1069,526,1335,448,386,84,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-france","category-hassan-rouhani","category-iran","category-scott-morrison","category-united-nations","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20695","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\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20696,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20695\/revisions\/20696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}