{"id":43108,"date":"2020-07-02T01:23:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T01:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=43108"},"modified":"2020-07-02T01:23:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T01:23:13","slug":"un-urges-halt-in-conflict-over-coronavirus-pandemic-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=43108","title":{"rendered":"UN urges halt in conflict over coronavirus pandemic: Live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"99.839550742078\">\n<ul>\n<li>The United Nations Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution demanding an &#8220;immediate cessation of hostilities&#8221; for at least 90 days in key conflicts including Syria, Yemen, Libya, South Sudan and Congo to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>New Zealand&#8217;s health minister, David Clark, resigned on Thursday, following recent slip-ups in the government&#8217;s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and personal mistakes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Italy&#8217;s hard-hit northern region of Lombardy accounted for considerably more than half of the nation&#8217;s latest confirmed 187 coronavirus cases &#8211; raising the total to 240,760 nationwide. The Health Ministry also reported 21 new deaths, raising to 34,788 the total of known deaths.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span>More than 10.6 million people around the world have been diagnosed with the coronavirus, over 5.6 million have recovered, and more than 514,000 have died, according to Johns Hopkins University.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Here are the latest updates.<\/p>\n<h2>Thursday, July 2<\/h2>\n<h3>00:37 GMT &#8211; US coronavirus cases rise more than 48,000 to set new daily record<\/h3>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Coronavirus cases in the United States rose by over 48,000, the biggest daily increase since the pandemic started, according to a Reuters tally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The number of US COVID-19 infections has surged over the past week, with daily figures setting new records several times in the past week, according to the tally.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona, California, Florida and Texas have led the increases and were among 14 states that have reported a more than doubling of case numbers during the month of June, according to a Reuters analysis as of the end of Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday warned any nation that fails to use every mechanism available to combat the still raging novel coronavirus is in for a &#8220;long, hard&#8221; battle.<\/p>\n<h3>00:01 GMT &#8211; New Zealand&#8217;s health minister Clark resigns<\/h3>\n<p>New Zealand&#8217;s health minister, David Clark, resigned on Thursday, following recent slip-ups in the government&#8217;s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and personal mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has become increasingly clear to me that my continuation in the role is distracting for the government&#8217;s overall response to COVID-19 and the global pandemic,&#8221; he said in a news conference in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Clark said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had accepted his resignation.<\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p data-inc=\"24\">Hello and welcome to Al Jazeera&#8217;s continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. I&#8217;m Ted Regencia in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>Read all the updates from yesterday (July 1)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/07\/coronavirus-cases-14-states-double-live-updates-200701003734077.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution demanding an &#8220;immediate cessation of hostilities&#8221; for at least 90 days in key conflicts including Syria, Yemen, Libya, South Sudan and Congo to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. New Zealand&#8217;s health minister, David Clark, resigned on Thursday, following recent slip-ups in the government&#8217;s response to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}