{"id":222574,"date":"2020-06-02T11:17:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T10:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=222574"},"modified":"2020-06-02T16:16:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T15:16:55","slug":"covid-19-who-reveals-drugs-that-could-lead-to-more-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=222574","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: WHO reveals drugs that could lead to more deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday, said the increased use of antibiotics in fighting COVID-19, could lead to more deaths.<br \/>\nWHO director-general, Tedros Ghebreyesus, speaking during a virtual press conference in Geneva, said a \u201cworrying number\u201d of bacterial infections were becoming increasingly resistant to the medicines traditionally used to treat them.<br \/>\nAccording to Ghebreyesus, the inappropriate use of antibiotics during the COVID-19 would further escalate the trend.<br \/>\n\u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increased use of antibiotics, which ultimately will lead to higher bacterial resistance rates that will impact the burden of disease and deaths during the pandemic and beyond,\u201d he said<br \/>\nThe WHO noted that only a small percentage of coronavirus patients needed antibiotics to treat subsequent bacterial infections.<br \/>\nGhebreyesus added that there was an \u201coveruse\u201d of antibiotics in certain parts of the world, while in some other countries, such life-saving medicines were unavailable, \u201cleading to needless suffering and death\u201d.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday, said the increased use of antibiotics in fighting COVID-19, could lead to more deaths. WHO director-general, Tedros Ghebreyesus, speaking during a virtual press conference in Geneva, said a \u201cworrying number\u201d of bacterial infections were becoming increasingly resistant to the medicines traditionally used to treat them. According to Ghebreyesus, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222710,"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":[14571,3],"tags":[2658,14173,14938],"class_list":["post-222574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-a","tag-coronavirus","tag-world-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222574","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=222574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/222710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}