{"id":100348,"date":"2020-03-26T16:42:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T23:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100348"},"modified":"2020-03-26T16:42:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T23:42:18","slug":"coronavirus-us-now-has-most-cases-in-the-world-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/26\/coronavirus-us-now-has-most-cases-in-the-world-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: US now has most cases in the world, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.worldometers.info\/\">worldometers.info<\/a> <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>As the number of confirmed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/coronavirus\">coronavirus<\/a>&nbsp;cases&nbsp;reaches more than 82,000, including nearly 1,200 deaths,&nbsp;the US now has more cases than any other country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest global health data collected by Johns Hopkins University shows the US&nbsp;eclipsing hard-hit countries Italy and China as the nation struggles with a&nbsp;consistent response after delayed efforts to take the mounting&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/covid-19\">Covid-19<\/a>&nbsp;crisis seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, Margaret Harris with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/WorldHealthOrganization\">World Health Organization<\/a>&nbsp;warned&nbsp;that the US was likely to become the world\u2019s viral&nbsp;epicentre as the number of cases escalated in several states, including New York, which spiked to more than 33,000 cases.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"772\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/coronadata.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/coronadata.jpg 772w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/coronadata-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/coronadata-768x517.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 772px) 100vw, 772px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy worldometers.info As the number of confirmed&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;cases&nbsp;reaches more than 82,000, including nearly 1,200 deaths,&nbsp;the US now has more cases than any other country. The latest global health data collected by Johns Hopkins University shows the US&nbsp;eclipsing hard-hit countries Italy and China as the nation struggles with a&nbsp;consistent response after delayed efforts to take the mounting&nbsp;Covid-19&nbsp;crisis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}