{"id":21147,"date":"2020-07-30T13:46:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T04:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/30\/global-report-australia-sees-record-daily-case-rise-as-global-infections-near-17m"},"modified":"2020-07-30T13:46:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T04:46:20","slug":"global-report-australia-sees-record-daily-case-rise-as-global-infections-near-17m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21147","title":{"rendered":"Global report: Australia sees record daily case rise as global infections near 17m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State of Victoria reports 723 new cases and 13 deaths; US deaths pass 150,000; Japan lifts ban on re-entry or some foreign residents<\/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>Australia<\/strong> has reported a record rise in coronavirus infections and deaths, with the state of Victoria announcing more than 700 new cases and 13 deaths, as the state continues to battle significant outbreaks in the aged care sector and among healthcare workers. It comes as global cases neared 17m, after five of the last seven days saw one-day jumps of more than 250,000 new infections.<\/p>\n<p>The 723 new cases announced by the Victorian premier Daniel Andrews marked the 25th consecutive day of triple-digit increases in Australia\u2019s second most populous state. Ten of the 13 deaths are believed to be connected to aged care homes. Australia\u2019s previous deadliest day was Sunday, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/jul\/26\/victoria-records-459-new-coronavirus-cases-and-10-deaths-in-australias-deadliest-day-in-pandemic\">ten people<\/a> were reported to have died.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/30\/global-report-australia-sees-record-daily-case-rise-as-global-infections-near-17m\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State of Victoria reports 723 new cases and 13 deaths; US deaths pass 150,000; Japan lifts ban on re-entry or some foreign residentsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAustralia has reported a record rise in coronavirus infectio&#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":[41,43,1069,914,88,299,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-japan","category-science","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\/21147","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=21147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21165,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21147\/revisions\/21165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}