{"id":149077,"date":"2020-06-21T03:43:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T01:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/06\/21\/coronavirus-live-news-trump-tells-rally-he-ordered-testing-to-be-slowed-victoria-cases-hit-two-month-high\/"},"modified":"2020-06-21T03:43:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T01:43:29","slug":"coronavirus-live-news-trump-tells-rally-he-ordered-testing-to-be-slowed-victoria-cases-hit-two-month-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=149077","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus live news: Trump tells rally he ordered testing to be slowed; Victoria cases hit two-month high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chile raises deaths to more than 7,000; six on Trump campaign test positive ahead of rally; Spain opens up for British touristsSchool closures \u2018will trigger UK child mental health crisis\u2019 Spain to \u2018freely\u2019 welcome Britons without 14-day quarantineSpaniards urged not to lower their guard as state of emergency ends 2.43am BST Here is the Guardian\u2019s report on the racist language used by Trump at his Tulsa campaign rally on Saturday evening.Trump has repeatedly tried to term Covid-19 as the \u201cChinese virus\u201d or the \u201cWuhan virus\u201d prompting outrage from many civil liberties groups, who have warned that such language can inspire racism and violence against Asian Americans. But in Tulsa Trump appeared to go even further in his use of racist language.The President uses the term \u201cKung flu\u201d pic.twitter.com\/yMlGLCRix3 2.37am BST A White House official has said that Trump\u2019s earlier comment that he told his team to \u201cslow down the testing\u201d was a joke. More than 119,654 people are confirmed to have been killed by Covid-19 in the US, more than in any other country, according to Johns Hopkins University.White House official says Trump was clearly joking. &#8220;He&#8217;s never advised staff to slow testing. We are extremely proud of the 25 million tests we are conducting at a rapid pace.&#8221; https:\/\/t.co\/TLlZxtyvXo Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/jun\/21\/coronavirus-live-news-chile-raises-death-toll-by-thousands-as-victoria-cases-hit-two-month-high\" target=\"_blank\">Coronavirus live news: Trump tells rally he ordered testing to be slowed; Victoria cases hit two-month high<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chile raises deaths to more than 7,000; six on Trump campaign test positive ahead of rally; Spain opens up for British touristsSchool closures \u2018will trigger UK child mental health crisis\u2019 Spain to \u2018freely\u2019 welcome Britons without 14-day quarantineSpaniards urged not to lower their guard as state of emergency ends 2.43am [&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-149077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149077","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=149077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}