{"id":141443,"date":"2020-04-24T03:48:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T01:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/04\/24\/coronavirus-live-news-us-passes-480bn-relief-bill-as-ramadan-begins\/"},"modified":"2020-04-24T03:48:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T01:48:38","slug":"coronavirus-live-news-us-passes-480bn-relief-bill-as-ramadan-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=141443","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus live news: US passes $480bn relief bill as Ramadan begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress vote takes US virus spending to nearly $3tr; Indonesia stops non-essential travel; Algeria, Egypt, UAE shorten curfew for fasting month; Follow the latest updates First trial for potential Covid-19 drug shows it has no effectUS unemployment applications reach over 26mAt a glance \u2013 latest developmentsUS &#8211; live coronavirus coverageAustralia &#8211; live coronavirus coverageSee all our coronavirus coverage 2.48am BST The Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte, has threatened to declare martial law if communist rebels disrupted the flow of relief goods for Filipinos impacted by the coronavirus lockdown restrictions, and asked his military to be ready. \u201cI am now warning everybody, I am putting notice to the armed forces and police. I might declare martial law and there will be no turning back,\u201d he said at the beginning of the meeting on the extension of coronavirus containment measures on Friday. 2.09am BST China\u2019s ambassador to the UK has strongly rebuked the US for suggesting Beijing was not truthful about the coronavirus, saying Washington should not seek to bully the China in a manner reminiscent of the 19th century European colonial wars, Reuters reports.\u201cI hear quite a lot of this speculation, this disinformation about China covering up, about China hiding something &#8211; this is not true,\u201d Liu Xiaoming said. \u201cThe Chinese government was transparent and very quick to share data.\u201d Related: From an Italian hotel to a US state, coronavirus \u2018lawfare\u2019 takes off Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/apr\/24\/coronavirus-death-toll-trump-china-live-news-us-passes-480bn-relief-bill-as-ramadan-restrictions-are-imposed-indonesia\" target=\"_blank\">Coronavirus live news: US passes 0bn relief bill as Ramadan begins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress vote takes US virus spending to nearly $3tr; Indonesia stops non-essential travel; Algeria, Egypt, UAE shorten curfew for fasting month; Follow the latest updates First trial for potential Covid-19 drug shows it has no effectUS unemployment applications reach over 26mAt a glance \u2013 latest developmentsUS &#8211; live coronavirus coverageAustralia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}