{"id":20539,"date":"2020-05-19T16:37:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T12:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=20539"},"modified":"2020-05-19T16:37:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T12:37:39","slug":"uk-coronavirus-death-toll-nears-43000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2020\/05\/19\/uk-coronavirus-death-toll-nears-43000\/","title":{"rendered":"UK coronavirus death toll nears 43,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The United Kingdom&#8217;s COVID-19 death toll has reached nearly 43,000, underlining the country&#8217;s status as the worst-hit in Europe, Reuters reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New figures for England and Wales brought the death toll to at least 42,990, a Reuters tally showed, including earlier data from Scotland and Northern Ireland, as well recent hospital deaths in England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s numbers from the Office for National Statistics painted a grim picture in care homes, more than a third of which have been stricken by the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deaths in care homes across the United Kingdom topped 10,000 as of 8th May, although the increase has slowed over the last couple of weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Comparisons with other countries are tricky, but the data confirmed Britain was among those hit worst by the pandemic, which has killed more than 317,000 worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom&#8217;s COVID-19 death toll has reached nearly 43,000, underlining the country&#8217;s status as the worst-hit in Europe, Reuters reported on Tuesday. New figures for England and Wales brought the death toll to at least 42,990, a Reuters tally showed, including earlier data from Scotland and Northern Ireland, as well recent hospital deaths in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20541,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20539\/revisions\/20541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}