{"id":265520,"date":"2020-08-17T04:41:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T08:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=265520"},"modified":"2020-08-17T04:41:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T08:41:31","slug":"us-covid-19-cases-surpass-5-4m-johns-hopkins-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/08\/17\/us-covid-19-cases-surpass-5-4m-johns-hopkins-university\/","title":{"rendered":"US Covid-19 cases surpass 5.4M: Johns Hopkins University"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_258438\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-258438\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/virus-4835301_1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-258438\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/virus-4835301_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/virus-4835301_1280.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/virus-4835301_1280-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/virus-4835301_1280-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/virus-4835301_1280-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-258438\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The US case count rose to 5,400,180, with the national death toll reaching 169,955 as of 6:27 p.m. local time (2227 GMT), according to the CSSE. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The total number of Covid-19 cases in the United States surpassed 5.4 million on Sunday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n<p>The US case count rose to 5,400,180, with the national death toll reaching 169,955 as of 6:27 p.m. local time (2227 GMT), according to the CSSE.<\/p>\n<p>The hardest-hit US state of California reported 622,427 cases, followed by Florida with 573,416 cases, Texas with 554,826 cases, and New York with 425,508 cases, the tally showed.<\/p>\n<p>Other states with over 180,000 cases include Georgia, Illinois, Arizona and New Jersey, according to the CSSE.<\/p>\n<p>By far, the United States remains the worst-hit nation, in terms of both the caseload and death toll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u00a0\u2013 The total number of Covid-19 cases in the United States surpassed 5.4 million on Sunday, according to the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":258438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-xinhua","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265520","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=265520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265521,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265520\/revisions\/265521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}