{"id":848,"date":"2020-03-31T16:58:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T16:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intv.pk\/coronavirus-us-death-toll-passes-3000\/"},"modified":"2020-03-31T16:58:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T16:58:37","slug":"coronavirus-us-death-toll-passes-3000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/?p=848","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: US death toll passes 3,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedImage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/intv.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/c3227c3b3c030f411fdd2e4ff3e33fb6_M.jpg\" alt=\"Coronavirus: US death toll passes 3,000\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedIntroText\">The US death toll from the coronavirus pandemic passed 3,000 on Monday, according to the running tally compiled by the Johns Hopkins University, with more than 163,000 confirmed cases.<\/div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedFullText\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United States has recorded 3,008 deaths, according to the tally, while its 163,429 cases are by far the highest national number ahead of Italy, Spain and China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Donald Trump has been criticized for an initially slow response by the federal government to the now-accelerating pandemic spread.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Harrowing scenes from hospitals in New York and elsewhere revealed a health system unprepared with basic supplies such as face masks, as well as life-saving devices like respirators.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Sunday, Trump cancelled his plans to re-open much of the country by Easter &mdash; April 12 &mdash; and extended social distancing guidelines until the end of April after his top scientists confronted him with data on the rising coronavirus crisis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump said America&rsquo;s death rate was likely to increase for two weeks, describing as &ldquo;horrible&rdquo; a prediction by senior scientist Anthony Fauci that COVID-19 could claim up to 200,000 lives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US death toll from the coronavirus pandemic passed 3,000 on Monday, according to the running tally compiled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category----3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}