{"id":106069,"date":"2020-04-25T21:03:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T04:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/global-coronavirus-death-toll-surpasses-200000-as-world-leaders-commit-to-finding-vaccine"},"modified":"2020-04-25T21:03:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T04:03:28","slug":"global-coronavirus-death-toll-surpasses-200000-as-world-leaders-commit-to-finding-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/global-coronavirus-death-toll-surpasses-200000-as-world-leaders-commit-to-finding-vaccine","title":{"rendered":"Global coronavirus death toll surpasses 200,000, as world leaders commit to finding vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/global-coronavirus-death-toll-surpasses-200000-as-world-leaders-commit-to-finding-vaccine.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The global <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\">coronavirus<\/a> death toll surpassed 200,000 on Saturday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.jhu.edu\/map.html\" target=\"_blank\">John Hopkins University<\/a> data.<\/p>\n<p>The grim total was reached a day after presidents and prime ministers agreed to work together to develop new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/detail\/24-04-2020-global-leaders-unite-to-ensure-everyone-everywhere-can-access-new-vaccines-tests-and-treatments-for-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\">vaccines<\/a>, tests and treatments at a virtual meeting with both the World Health Organization (WHO) and Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will only halt COVID-19 through solidarity,\u201d said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. \u201cCountries, health partners, manufacturers, and the private sector must act together and ensure that the fruits of science and research can benefit everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global coronavirus death toll surpassed 200,000 on Saturday, according to John Hopkins University data. The grim total was reached a day after presidents and prime ministers agreed to work together to develop new vaccines, tests and treatments at a virtual meeting with both the World Health Organization (WHO) and Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}