{"id":259738,"date":"2020-06-29T09:01:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T13:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=259738"},"modified":"2020-06-29T09:01:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T13:01:23","slug":"global-coronavirus-death-toll-tops-500k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/29\/global-coronavirus-death-toll-tops-500k\/","title":{"rendered":"Global coronavirus death toll tops 500K"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_259064\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-259064\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/globe-5116613_1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-259064\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/globe-5116613_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/globe-5116613_1280.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/globe-5116613_1280-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/globe-5116613_1280-768x613.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/globe-5116613_1280-1024x817.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-259064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Global coronavirus cases have surpassed 10 million. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The death toll worldwide from the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) surpassed 500,000 on Sunday, according to a running tally by US-based Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n<p>The worldwide tally for virus-linked deaths reached 500,108, while the number of recoveries topped 5.08 million<\/p>\n<p>Global coronavirus cases have surpassed 10 million.<\/p>\n<p>The US remains the worst-hit country with over 2.53 million infections, while its death toll exceeds 125,700.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil, which has the largest number of Covid-19 cases and deaths in Latin America, has the second-highest number of infections worldwide with 1.34 million.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil reported 552 Covid-19 fatalities on Monday and the country\u2019s death toll now stands at 57,622, according to the Health Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>With over 271,000 cases, Brazil\u2019s most populous city, Sao Paulo, remains the hardest-hit area of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Russia, India, Italy, Spain, and the UK are also among the hardest-hit countries in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the virus has spread to 188 countries and regions since late last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA\u00a0\u2013 The death toll worldwide from the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) surpassed 500,000 on Sunday, according to a running tally &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":259064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259739,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259738\/revisions\/259739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}