{"id":262753,"date":"2020-07-24T04:59:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T08:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=262753"},"modified":"2020-07-24T04:59:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T08:59:06","slug":"us-exceeds-4m-coronavirus-cases-johns-hopkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/24\/us-exceeds-4m-coronavirus-cases-johns-hopkins\/","title":{"rendered":"US exceeds 4M coronavirus cases: Johns Hopkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_262754\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-262754\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/drape-5224847_1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-262754 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/drape-5224847_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/drape-5224847_1280.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/drape-5224847_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/drape-5224847_1280-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/drape-5224847_1280-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-262754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The US remains the country hardest-hit by the pandemic with the highest number of cases and deaths recorded worldwide. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The US on Thursday surpassed four million coronavirus cases as the number of cases spiked, according to a running tally compiled by Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n<p>In all, the Maryland-based university recorded 4,007,859 positive tests, and 143,846 Covid-19-related deaths. It reported 1,210,849 recoveries.<\/p>\n<p>The US remains the country hardest-hit by the pandemic with the highest number of cases and deaths recorded worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump acknowledged Tuesday that the situation will likely &#8220;get worse before it gets better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in the process of developing a strategy that\u2019s going to be very, very powerful,\u201d he said without elaborating as the US is five months into the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Cases have been flaring in California, Texas, and Florida.<\/p>\n<p>California surpassed New York, the original epicenter of the US outbreak, Wednesday for the highest number of confirmed cases. The state, America&#8217;s most populous, has 421,857 confirmed cases after adding over 12,000 on Thursday.\u00a0<em><strong>(Anadolu)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2013 The US on Thursday surpassed four million coronavirus cases as the number of cases spiked, according to a running &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":262754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262753","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\/262753","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=262753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262755,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262753\/revisions\/262755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}