{"id":399131,"date":"2020-07-04T10:12:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T07:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=399131"},"modified":"2020-07-04T10:21:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T07:21:48","slug":"global-corona-virus-cases-rise-to-more-than-11-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/global-corona-virus-cases-rise-to-more-than-11-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Global corona virus cases rise to more than 11 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON:(SONNA)<\/strong> &#8211; Global corona virus cases exceeded 11 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, marking another milestone in the spread of the disease that has killed more than half a million people in seven months.<\/p>\n<p>The number of cases is more than double the figure for severe influenza illnesses recorded annually, according to the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p>Many hard-hit countries are easing lock downs put in place to slow the spread of the corona virus while making extensive alterations to work and social life that could last for a year or more until a vaccine is available.<\/p>\n<p>Some countries are experiencing resurgence in infections, leading authorities to partially reinstate lock downs, in what experts say could be a recurring pattern into 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The United States reported more than 55,400 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, a new daily global record as infections rose in a majority of states. Several U.S. governors halted plans to reopen their state economies in the face of a surge in cases.<\/p>\n<p>Almost a quarter of the known global deaths have occurred in the United States &#8211; nearly 129,000. A recent surge in cases has put President Donald Trump\u2019s handling of the crisis under a microscope and led several governors to halt plans to reopen their states after strict lock downs.<\/p>\n<p>Latin America, where Brazil has 1.5 million cases, makes up 23% of the global total of people infected. India has become the new epicenter in Asia, rising to 625,000 cases.<\/p>\n<p>Asia and the Middle East have around 12% and 9% respectively, according to the Reuters tally, which uses government reports.<\/p>\n<p>Worldwide, there have been more than 520,000 fatalities linked to the disease so far, roughly the same as the number of influenza deaths reported annually<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>SOURCE: REUTERS<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON:(SONNA) &#8211; Global corona virus cases exceeded 11 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, marking another milestone in the spread of the disease that has killed more than half a million people in seven months. The number of cases is more than double the figure for severe influenza illnesses recorded annually, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-399131","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\/399131","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399135,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399131\/revisions\/399135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}