{"id":399508,"date":"2020-07-19T08:39:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T05:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=399508"},"modified":"2020-07-19T08:41:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T05:41:41","slug":"virus-deaths-top-600000-as-cases-rise-in-safrica-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/virus-deaths-top-600000-as-cases-rise-in-safrica-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Virus deaths top 600,000 as cases rise in SAfrica, Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-166 Component-p-0-2-158\">JOHANNESBURG <strong>(SONNA)<\/strong> \u2014 Countries from the U.S. to South Africa to Australia were struggling to hold down rising rates of the coronavirus, as global deaths from COVID-19 surged past 600,000 in a sign of how far off the world remains from a return to normalcy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-166 Component-p-0-2-158\">While the U.S. leads global infections, South Africa now ranks as the fifth worst-hit country in the pandemic with 350,879 cases \u2014 roughly half of all those confirmed on the African continent. Its struggles are a sign of trouble to come for nations with even fewer health care resources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-166 Component-p-0-2-158\">China confirmed 13 new cases in the northwestern city of Urumqi on Sunday, while South Korea reported less than 40 additional cases for a second straight day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Component-dfp-0-2-162\"><strong>Source<\/strong>:AP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG (SONNA) \u2014 Countries from the U.S. to South Africa to Australia were struggling to hold down rising rates of the coronavirus, as global deaths from COVID-19 surged past 600,000 in a sign of how far off the world remains from a return to normalcy. While the U.S. leads global infections, South Africa now ranks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-399508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399508","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=399508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399510,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399508\/revisions\/399510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}