{"id":397427,"date":"2020-03-11T17:39:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T14:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=397427"},"modified":"2020-03-11T17:39:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T14:39:14","slug":"coronavirus-up-to-70-of-germany-could-become-infected-merkel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/coronavirus-up-to-70-of-germany-could-become-infected-merkel\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Up to 70% of Germany could become infected &#8211; Merkel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that up to 70% of the country&#8217;s population &#8211; some 58 million people &#8211; could contract the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Merkel made the stark prediction at a news conference on Wednesday alongside Health Minister Jens Spahn.<\/p>\n<p>She said since there was no known cure, the focus would fall on slowing the spread of the virus. &#8220;It&#8217;s about winning time,&#8221; she explained.<\/p>\n<p>Her remarks came as Italy entered its second day of a national lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced the closure of schools, gyms, museums, nightclubs and other venues across the country, which on Wednesday passed 10,000 confirmed infections.<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that up to 70% of the country&#8217;s population &#8211; some 58 million people &#8211; could contract the coronavirus. Mrs Merkel made the stark prediction at a news conference on Wednesday alongside Health Minister Jens Spahn. She said since there was no known cure, the focus would fall on slowing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":397428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-397427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397429,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397427\/revisions\/397429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}