{"id":21887,"date":"2020-06-19T10:22:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T10:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=21887"},"modified":"2020-06-19T10:22:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T10:22:51","slug":"covid-19-death-toll-in-brazil-nears-50000-as-number-of-infections-reaches-1m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=21887","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 death toll in Brazil nears 50,000, as number of infections reaches 1m"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Medics-treating-COVID-19-patients-in-Brazil.jpg\" alt=\"COVID-19: Brazil\u2019s death toll soars, as WHO warns countries to press with efforts to contain virus\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The death toll arising from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/tag\/COVID-19\/\">COVID-19 disease<\/a>&nbsp;in Brazil has reached 50,000 even as the number of infections thus far recorded in the South American country has stretched to one million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the world\u2019s worst outbreak outside of the United States, Brazil now has 978,142 confirmed cases and 47,748 deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, at least 8.4 million people have been confirmed to have COVID-19 around the world and more than four million have recovered from the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This came as COVID-19 resurgence was recorded in China\u2019s capital, Beijing, with new reports from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC) revealing heavy traces of the Sars-CoV-2 virus at the meat and seafood section of the Xinfadi food center in Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wu Zunyou, chief&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/06\/live-brazil-nears-50000-coronavirus-deaths-1-million-cases-200618235506650.html\">epidemiologist<\/a>&nbsp;at the CCDC made this known on Thursday after the latest outbreak infected more than 100 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll arising from&nbsp;COVID-19 disease&nbsp;in Brazil has reached 50,000 even as the number of infections thus far recorded in the South American country has stretched to one million. With the world\u2019s worst outbreak outside of the United States, Brazil now has 978,142 confirmed cases and 47,748 deaths. According to data compiled by Johns Hopkins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Covid-19 death toll in Brazil nears 50,000, as number of infections reaches 1m &raquo; WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=21887\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=21887#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"COVID-19\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=27\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Covid-19 death toll in Brazil nears 50,000, as number of infections reaches 1m\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Covid-19 death toll in Brazil nears 50,000, as number of infections reaches 1m &raquo; WatchDog Plus Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=21887","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=21887#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"COVID-19","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=27"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Covid-19 death toll in Brazil nears 50,000, as number of infections reaches 1m"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=27\" rel=\"category\">COVID-19<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"The death toll arising from&nbsp;COVID-19 disease&nbsp;in Brazil has reached 50,000 even as the number of infections thus far recorded in the South American country has stretched to one million. With the world\u2019s worst outbreak outside of the United States, Brazil now has 978,142 confirmed cases and 47,748 deaths. According to data compiled by Johns Hopkins&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21887"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}