{"id":266710,"date":"2020-08-27T06:48:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T10:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=266710"},"modified":"2020-08-27T06:48:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T10:48:09","slug":"global-covid-19-cases-top-24m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/08\/27\/global-covid-19-cases-top-24m\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Covid-19 cases top 24M"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_259064\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-259064\" style=\"width: 1024px\" 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=\"wp-image-259064 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/globe-5116613_1280-1024x817.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/globe-5116613_1280-1024x817.jpg 1024w, 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.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-259064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The death toll from the virus exceeded 821,650, with recoveries topping 15.62 million, the data showed. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The number of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases worldwide exceeded 24 million on Wednesday, according to a running tally by the US-based Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n<p>The death toll from the virus exceeded 821,650, with recoveries topping 15.62 million, the data showed.<\/p>\n<p>The US remains the worst-hit country with more than 5.8 million infections, while the death toll is nearing 180,000.<\/p>\n<p>The country has registered more than two million recoveries to date.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil, which has the largest number of Covid-19 cases and deaths in Latin America, has the second-highest infection numbers globally, with more than 3.66 million.<\/p>\n<p>The country reported more than 116,500 pandemic-related fatalities, while recoveries have topped three million.<\/p>\n<p>India, Russia, South Africa, Peru, Mexico, and Colombia are also among the hardest-hit countries.<\/p>\n<p>China, ground zero of the virus, has registered 89,777 cases, including 4,712 deaths and 84,168 recoveries.<\/p>\n<p>The virus has spread to 188 countries and regions since late last year. <em><strong>(Anadolu)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA\u00a0\u2013 The number of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases worldwide exceeded 24 million on Wednesday, according to a running tally &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":259064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266710","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\/266710","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=266710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266711,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266710\/revisions\/266711"}],"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=266710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}