{"id":21295,"date":"2020-08-03T14:03:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T05:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/03\/global-report-julys-terrible-toll-revealed-as-coronavirus-cases-double-every-six-weeks"},"modified":"2020-08-03T14:03:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T05:03:57","slug":"global-report-julys-terrible-toll-revealed-as-coronavirus-cases-double-every-six-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21295","title":{"rendered":"Global report: July&#8217;s terrible toll revealed as coronavirus cases double every six weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US cases hit 1.87 million last month, or double the previous record; WHO says pandemic continues to accelerate; Melbourne wakes to strict lockdown<\/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>July was the worst month of the coronavirus pandemic so far for many countries, with more than 8 million cases recorded \u2013 nearly as many as the first six months of the outbreak put together, figures have shown.<\/p>\n<p>With global infections passing 18 million on Monday, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned over the weekend that the pandemic continues to accelerate, with cases doubling about every six weeks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/03\/global-report-julys-terrible-toll-revealed-as-coronavirus-cases-double-every-six-weeks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US cases hit 1.87 million last month, or double the previous record; WHO says pandemic continues to accelerate; Melbourne wakes to strict lockdownCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJuly was the worst month of the coronavirus pa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"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":[1069,62,914,47,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-us-news","category-world-health-organization","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\/21295","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\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21296,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21295\/revisions\/21296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}