{"id":141690,"date":"2020-04-26T01:12:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T23:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/04\/26\/johnson-faces-lockdown-dilemma-as-scientists-warn-over-grim-virus-data\/"},"modified":"2020-04-26T01:12:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T23:12:20","slug":"johnson-faces-lockdown-dilemma-as-scientists-warn-over-grim-virus-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=141690","title":{"rendered":"Johnson faces lockdown dilemma as scientists warn over grim virus data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister returns to work on Monday to cabinet at odds over easing social distancingCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe number of new cases of Covid-19 being diagnosed is still much too high to allow any easing of the lockdown soon, leading scientists have warned, as the virus death toll in UK hospitals passed 20,000 on Saturday.The home secretary, Priti Patel, described the figure as a \u201cterrible milestone\u201d and a \u201cdeeply tragic and moving moment\u201d. She said it showed the need for the British public to \u201cstay strong\u201d and remain at home for the foreseeable future. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2020\/apr\/25\/boris-johnson-lockdown-dilemma-grim-virus-data\" target=\"_blank\">Johnson faces lockdown dilemma as scientists warn over grim virus data<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister returns to work on Monday to cabinet at odds over easing social distancingCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe number of new cases of Covid-19 being diagnosed is still much too high to allow any easing of the lockdown soon, leading scientists have warned, as the virus [&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-141690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141690","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=141690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}