{"id":264230,"date":"2020-08-05T23:23:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T03:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=264230"},"modified":"2020-08-05T23:23:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T03:23:22","slug":"global-coronavirus-death-toll-tops-700k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/08\/05\/global-coronavirus-death-toll-tops-700k\/","title":{"rendered":"Global coronavirus death toll tops 700K"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_252348\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-252348\" style=\"width: 2400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cdc-w9KEokhajKw-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-252348 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cdc-w9KEokhajKw-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cdc-w9KEokhajKw-unsplash.jpg 2400w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cdc-w9KEokhajKw-unsplash-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cdc-w9KEokhajKw-unsplash-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cdc-w9KEokhajKw-unsplash-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-252348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data showed the total number of cases worldwide climbed to 18.54 million, with 11.13 recoveries. (File Photo by CDC\/Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The death toll worldwide from the novel coronavirus rose to 700,647 on Wednesday, according to a running tally by the US-based Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n<p>Data showed the total number of cases worldwide climbed to 18.54 million, with 11.13 recoveries.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil has the highest number of recoveries with more than 2.15 million, followed by the US with over 1.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>While the US &#8212; the only country to cross the 4 million mark of infections with an excess of 4.77 million cases and over 156,800 deaths &#8212; continues to be the worst-hit by the virus, Brazil has over 2.8 million cases and more than 95,800 fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>The US and Brazil are also followed by Mexico with 48,869 deaths and the UK with 46,295 fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>China, ground zero for the disease, has registered more than 88,206 cases and over 81,200 recoveries, while its death toll stood at 4,676.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the virus has spread to 188 countries since it first emerged in China in December.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the rising number of cases, most who contract the virus suffer mild symptoms before making a recovery.\u00a0<em><strong>(Anadolu)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA\u00a0\u2013 The death toll worldwide from the novel coronavirus rose to 700,647 on Wednesday, according to a running tally by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264230","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=264230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264231,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264230\/revisions\/264231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}