{"id":198282,"date":"2020-03-03T10:07:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T09:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=198282"},"modified":"2020-03-03T10:07:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T09:07:41","slug":"who-staff-tests-positive-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=198282","title":{"rendered":"WHO staff tests positive for Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The World Health Organisation WHO) on Monday, said one of its staff in Iran Country Office has tested positive for Coronavirus (COVID-19).<\/p>\n<p>WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, who made this known on Monday at a media briefing, said the organisation\u2019s affected staff has mild disease.<\/p>\n<p>Ghebreyesus said that the epidemics in the Republic of Korea, Italy, Iran and Japan was its greatest concern.<\/p>\n<p>He said the WHO\u2019s team arrived in Iran on Monday to deliver supplies and support the government in the COVID-19 response.<\/p>\n<p>Ghebreyesus noted that the number of COVID-19 cases in China continue to decline, saying China on March 1 reported 206 cases to WHO, its lowest since Jan. 22.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly eight cases were reported outside Hubei province.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOutside China, a total of 8,739 cases have been reported from 61 countries with 127 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the last 24 hours, there were almost nine times more COVID-19 cases reported outside China than inside China,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he Republic of Korea has reported over 4,200 COVID-19 cases and 22 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>The means it has more than half of all cases outside China.<br \/>\nHe, however, said that the cases in Korea appeared to be coming mostly from suspected cases from the five known clusters, rather than the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s important, because it indicates that surveillance measures are working and Republic of Korea\u2019s epidemic can still be contained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepublic of Korea\u2019s situation also underlines that this is a unique virus with unique features. This virus is not influenza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in unchartered territory. We have never before seen a respiratory pathogen that is capable of community transmission, but which can also be contained with the right measures,\u201d NAN quoted him as saying.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organisation WHO) on Monday, said one of its staff in Iran Country Office has tested positive for Coronavirus (COVID-19). WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, who made this known on Monday at a media briefing, said the organisation\u2019s affected staff has mild disease. Ghebreyesus said that the epidemics in the Republic of Korea, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,14173,1968],"class_list":["post-198282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-coronavirus","tag-who"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/198283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}