{"id":31577,"date":"2021-04-29T20:16:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T11:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/apr\/29\/coronavirus-live-news-world-nears-150m-cases-facebook-blocks-hashtag-calling-for-modi-to-resign"},"modified":"2021-04-29T20:16:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T11:16:43","slug":"coronavirus-live-news-india-reports-record-new-infections-and-deaths-ireland-to-reopen-economy-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31577","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus live news: India reports record new infections and deaths; Ireland to reopen economy in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/apr\/29\/coronavirus-live-news-world-nears-150m-cases-facebook-blocks-hashtag-calling-for-modi-to-resign?page=with:block-608a3aec8f08f750b1dd5985#block-608a3aec8f08f750b1dd5985\">India\u2019s total case numbers<\/a> pass 18m; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/apr\/29\/coronavirus-live-news-world-nears-150m-cases-facebook-blocks-hashtag-calling-for-modi-to-resign?page=with:block-608a6bf78f081794b21b4979#block-608a6bf78f081794b21b4979\">Ireland to reopen retail<\/a>, personal services and construction; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/apr\/29\/coronavirus-live-news-world-nears-150m-cases-facebook-blocks-hashtag-calling-for-modi-to-resign?page=with:block-608a2aec8f084ed0b7569cae#block-608a2aec8f084ed0b7569cae\">nearly 1 in 50 people worldwide have had Covid<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/apr\/28\/facebook-blocked-resignmodi-hashtag-india-coronavirus\">Facebook blocked hashtag calling for Modi to resign over pandemic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2021\/apr\/28\/crime-against-humanity-arundhati-roy-india-covid-catastrophe\">Arundhati Roy on India\u2019s Covid catastrophe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/29\/explainer-why-is-getting-medical-oxygen-for-covid-patients-in-some-countries-so-difficult\">Explainer: why is getting medical oxygen in some countries so difficult?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-04-29T11:16:43.291Z\">12.16pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>A total of 90.5% of people who were tested for Covid in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/england\"><strong>England<\/strong><\/a> in the week ending 21 April at a regional site, local site or mobile testing unit received their result within 24 hours. This is up slightly from 90.3% in the previous week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/boris-johnson\">Boris Johnson<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\">UK<\/a> prime minister, had pledged that by the end of June 2020 the results of all in-person tests would be back within a day, as PA Media reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-04-29T11:04:09.849Z\">12.04pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\"><strong>UK<\/strong><\/a> government has been criticised for refusing to make public the training materials call handlers in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/nhs\">NHS<\/a> 111 coronavirus response service were given at the start of the pandemic, on the grounds that they are \u201ccommercially sensitive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Kate Osamor, the Labour MP who warned last year that the 111 service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/apr\/23\/nhs-111-crisis-coronavirus-pandemic\">\u201csimply couldn\u2019t cope\u201d<\/a> with the huge number of people needing advice for Covid-19 symptoms, condemned the refusal as an \u201cinsult\u201d to families whose relatives have died from the virus.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/29\/covid-bereaved-condemn-government-refusal-to-publish-nhs-111-training-content\">Covid bereaved condemn government refusal to publish NHS 111 training content<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/apr\/29\/coronavirus-live-news-world-nears-150m-cases-facebook-blocks-hashtag-calling-for-modi-to-resign\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s total case numbers pass 18m; Ireland to reopen retail, personal services and construction; nearly 1 in 50 people worldwide have had CovidFacebook blocked hashtag calling for Modi to resign over pandemicArundhati Roy on India\u2019s Covid catastrophe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2146,"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":[1066,62,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-india","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\/31577","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\/2146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31578,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31577\/revisions\/31578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}