{"id":31734,"date":"2021-05-04T17:36:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T08:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/may\/04\/coronavirus-live-news-india-passes-20m-cases-us-average-daily-infections-fall-below-50000"},"modified":"2021-05-04T17:36:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T08:36:48","slug":"coronavirus-live-news-india-passes-20m-cases-us-average-daily-infections-fall-below-50000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31734","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus live news: India passes 20m cases, US average daily infections fall below 50,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India records 357,229 new daily cases and 3,449 deaths; US daily cases fall to lowest average since October; Germany cancels Oktoberfest<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/03\/vaccine-shortages-blight-indias-efforts-to-contain-covid-crisis\">Vaccine shortages blight India\u2019s efforts to contain Covid crisis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/03\/eu-plans-to-reopen-to-fully-covid-vaccinated-foreign-tourists-from-june\">EU plans to reopen to fully Covid-vaccinated foreign tourists from June<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/03\/covid-vaccine-rollout-rapidly-gathering-pace-across-europe\">Covid vaccine rollout rapidly gathering pace across Europe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/may\/03\/pfizer-vaccine-ages-12-15-approval\">US to authorise Pfizer vaccine for ages 12-15 early next week &#8211; report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-05-04T08:36:48.968Z\">9.36am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p><strong>The Indian Premier League has been postponed with immediate effect<\/strong>. The competition has been carrying on against the backdrop of a public health emergency due to a huge coronavirus surge but with multiple reports of team bubbles being breached by positive cases, the Board of Control for Cricket in India\u2019s governing council unanimously voted to suspend the action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Indian Premier League Governing Council (IPL GC) and Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in an emergency meeting has unanimously decided to postpone IPL 2021 season, with immediate effect,\u201d a statement on the official IPL website read. \u201cThe BCCI does not want to compromise on the safety of the players, support staff and the other participants involved in organising the IPL. This decision was taken keeping the safety, health and wellbeing of all the stakeholders in mind.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2021\/may\/04\/indian-premier-league-ipl-cricket-tournament-suspended-amid-worsening-covid-crisis-in-india\">IPL cricket tournament suspended amid worsening Covid crisis in India <\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-05-04T08:29:57.937Z\">9.29am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p><strong>UK minister Liz Truss has hinted that Britain is set to announce the green list for countries that people can travel to on holiday shortly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The government has already said in mid-April it would announce which countries would be open for quarantine-free travel from England in early May, ahead of a plan to allow holidays again from 17 May at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2021\/may\/04\/starmer-elections-poll-tories-hartlepool-win-covid-coronavirus-latest-updates-politics-live\">Starmer downplays expectations ahead of elections as poll suggests Tories set for Hartlepool win \u2013 politics live<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/may\/04\/coronavirus-live-news-india-passes-20m-cases-us-average-daily-infections-fall-below-50000\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India records 357,229 new daily cases and 3,449 deaths; US daily cases fall to lowest average since October; Germany cancels OktoberfestVaccine shortages blight India\u2019s efforts to contain Covid crisisEU plans to reopen to fully Covid-vaccinated foreign&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2158,"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":[1066,62,914,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/31734","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\/2158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31735,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31734\/revisions\/31735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}