{"id":21529,"date":"2020-08-09T14:55:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T05:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/09\/global-covid-report-us-5m-cases-new-zealand-100-days-without-local-transmission"},"modified":"2020-08-09T14:55:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T05:55:59","slug":"global-report-us-nears-5m-covid-cases-new-zealand-goes-100-days-without-local-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21529","title":{"rendered":"Global report: US nears 5m Covid cases; New Zealand goes 100 days without local transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US nears milestone as Trump extends jobless aid; NZ warns against complacency; Australia records deadliest day of pandemic to date<\/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 US is nearing the grim milestone of 5 million confirmed Covid-19 cases, with more than 160,000 deaths, as Donald Trump used executive orders to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/aug\/08\/trump-signs-orders-for-coronavirus-relief-with-lower-level-of-extra-aid-for-jobless\">extend coronavirus aid into next year<\/a>, with a lower level of support for the unemployed.<\/p>\n<p>With the <strong>US<\/strong> recording nearly 2 million more cases than the next worst-affected country, Brazil, Trump said on Saturday that he would use unspent funds from the Cares Act to continue unemployment payments to millions of newly unemployed Americans at a rate of $400 a week \u2013 a $200 drop from the earlier payment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/09\/global-covid-report-us-5m-cases-new-zealand-100-days-without-local-transmission\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US nears milestone as Trump extends jobless aid; NZ warns against complacency; Australia records deadliest day of pandemic to dateCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe US is nearing the grim milestone of 5 million confirmed Co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,43,1069,56,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-new-zealand","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\/21529","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21530,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21529\/revisions\/21530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}