{"id":160721,"date":"2020-09-16T03:40:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T01:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/09\/16\/coronavirus-live-news-world-still-at-beginning-of-pandemic-who-covid-19-envoy-warns\/"},"modified":"2020-09-16T03:40:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T01:40:21","slug":"coronavirus-live-news-world-still-at-beginning-of-pandemic-who-covid-19-envoy-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=160721","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus live news: World still at 'beginning' of pandemic, WHO Covid-19 envoy warns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Half of world\u2019s schoolchildren unable to attend classrooms; Virus death toll linked to Maine wedding grows to 7; Apple rolls out virtual fitness service. Follow the latest updatesWorld still at the beginning of the pandemic, WHO expert warnsSweden records its fewest daily cases since MarchCovid cases near 30m; China expects vaccine in NovemberWorld map: which countries have the most cases and deaths?See all our coronavirus coverage 2.40am BST The government of Taiwan has given a third automatic extension to foreign tourists still inside its borders, \u201cconsidering the current state of the global pandemic is still grim\u201d.Taiwan – where it is not grim thanks to their successful pandemic response – this week announced the third 30-day extension to visitors who arrived in Taiwan on or before 21 March this year, and who hadn\u2019t overstayed their 180-day visa.The National Immigration Agency said the extensions had been granted \u201c in order to prevent international movement of population leading to further outbreaks, as well as to reduce the burden of epidemic prevention on local neighbourhoods\u201d.Taiwan, which has a population of around 23.8 million, acted early on reports of the new coronavirus, and has recorded just 499 cases and seven deaths. 2.10am BST Charlotte Graham-McLay reports for the Guardian: New Zealand reported a second consecutive day of no new cases of Covid-19 spread in the community on Wednesday. A single new case diagnosed in the country on Wednesday, health officials said, was uncovered in a traveler returning to New Zealand who is in quarantine at a managed isolation facility.But another person has died of the virus in hospital, bringing New Zealand\u2019s Covid-19 death toll to 25.The news of a second day of no reported domestic cases comes two days after Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister, announced current coronavirus restrictions on social gatherings would remain in place until next Monday \u2013 at which point, her government will begin to ease them if community spread of the virus appears to be controlled.New Zealand already vanquished the virus once, in June \u2013 at one point there were no active cases of Covid-19 in the country \u2013 but a resurgence in the largest city, Auckland, led to a second lockdown, which is now being eased.Health officials said Tuesday that there are 79 cases of Covid-19 in the country \u2013 a number that is slowly falling as more people recover than there are new cases diagnosed — with 52 of them in the community and 27 imported cases in quarantine facilities. Three people are in hospital with the virus. A total of 1,451 cases of Covid-19 have been diagnosed in New Zealand. Continue reading…
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Half of world\u2019s schoolchildren unable to attend classrooms; Virus death toll linked to Maine wedding grows to 7; Apple rolls out virtual fitness service. Follow the latest updatesWorld still at the beginning of the pandemic, WHO expert warnsSweden records its fewest daily cases since MarchCovid cases near 30m; China expects […]<\/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-160721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160721","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=160721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}