{"id":260989,"date":"2020-07-09T02:25:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T06:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=260989"},"modified":"2020-07-09T02:25:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T06:25:12","slug":"us-coronavirus-cases-top-3-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/09\/us-coronavirus-cases-top-3-million\/","title":{"rendered":"US coronavirus cases top 3 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_257183\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-257183\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/woman-wearing-mask-on-train-3962264.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-257183 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/woman-wearing-mask-on-train-3962264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/woman-wearing-mask-on-train-3962264.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/woman-wearing-mask-on-train-3962264-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/woman-wearing-mask-on-train-3962264-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/woman-wearing-mask-on-train-3962264-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-257183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recent spikes in cases and hospitalizations forced many US states to pause their reopenings or reimpose restrictions to curb the virus&#8217; spread. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Coronavirus cases in the United States shot past 3 million on Wednesday, according to a running tally by Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n<p>The Maryland university&#8217;s tally counted 3,009,611 confirmed infections and 131,594 fatalities in the US, while 936,476 people have recovered from the disease since it first appeared.<\/p>\n<p>Recent spikes in cases and hospitalizations forced many US states to pause their reopenings or reimpose restrictions to curb the virus&#8217; spread.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the country saw a new all-time daily high of infections with 60,000 new cases.<\/p>\n<p>In less than a month, the surge added 1 million new cases, bringing the total to 3 million.<\/p>\n<p>While the first million mark was reached some three months after the beginning of the outbreak, the second million was added after only 45 days.<\/p>\n<p>The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the highest number of cases and deaths worldwide, followed by Brazil and the UK.<\/p>\n<p>More than 36.8 million tests have been done so far, but members of the public have faced widespread problems getting tested.\u00a0<em><strong>(Anadolu)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA\u00a0\u2013 Coronavirus cases in the United States shot past 3 million on Wednesday, according to a running tally by Johns &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":257183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260989","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\/260989","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260990,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260989\/revisions\/260990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}