{"id":66389,"date":"2020-03-19T09:21:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T01:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=66389"},"modified":"2020-03-19T09:27:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T01:27:02","slug":"covid-19-infections-rise-by-39-in-japan-876-in-total","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=66389","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Infections Rise By 39 In Japan, 876 In Total"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TOKYO, Mar 19 (NNN-NHK) &#8211; Japan&#8217;s Health Ministry and local governments said, the number of COVID-19 infections rose to 876 as of 6:30 p.m. local time, with 39 new cases reported compared with Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The death toll in Japan from the pneumonia-causing virus currently stands at 36 people, according to the health ministry, with the figure including those from the virus-hit Diamond Princess cruise ship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the 876 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Japan, the majority are in Japan&#8217;s northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, which confirmed 154 cases and previously declared a state of emergency over the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aichi Prefecture, meanwhile, has 125 confirmed cases, Osaka 112, Tokyo 102, Hyogo 86 and Kanagawa Prefecture 60 infections, according to the latest statistics from the Health Ministry and local authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The health ministry said, a total of 60 patients were considered severely ill and are on ventilators, to receive respiratory assistance or have been admitted to intensive care units for medical treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry added that a total of 679 people have been discharged from hospitals after their symptoms improved.&#8211; NNN-NHK <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, Mar 19 (NNN-NHK) &#8211; Japan&#8217;s Health Ministry and local governments said, the number of COVID-19 infections rose to 876 as of 6:30 p.m. local time, with 39 new cases reported compared with Tuesday. The death toll in Japan from the pneumonia-causing virus currently stands at 36 people, according to the health ministry, with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":66398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66389"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}