{"id":8984,"date":"2021-01-15T21:06:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T21:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/article\/3117983\/coronavirus-global-death-toll-passes-two-million-mark"},"modified":"2021-01-15T21:06:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T21:06:26","slug":"coronavirus-global-death-toll-passes-the-two-million-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/15\/coronavirus-global-death-toll-passes-the-two-million-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: global death toll passes the two million mark"},"content":{"rendered":"Total confirmed deaths from Covid-19 around the world passed two million on Friday, according to a count by Agence France-Presse.As of 6:25pm GMT on Friday, 2,000,066 people had died of the virus since it first emerged in China in late 2019, according to the count based on official figures provided by authorities.The new figure comes as countries around the globe battle rising infections, despite the gradual roll-out of vaccination campaigns.In total, 93,321,070 cases of the virus have been\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/article\/3117983\/coronavirus-global-death-toll-passes-two-million-mark\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total confirmed deaths from Covid-19 around the world passed two million on Friday, according to a count by Agence France-Presse.As of 6:25pm GMT on Friday, 2,000,066 people had died of the virus since it first emerged in China in late 2019, according &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9071,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984\/revisions\/9071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}