{"id":224576,"date":"2020-06-09T12:54:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T11:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=224576"},"modified":"2020-06-09T12:55:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T11:55:04","slug":"covid-19-situation-getting-worse-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=224576","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 situation getting worse &#8211; WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The World Health Organization (WHO) has admitted that COVID-19 situation is getting worse around the world.<\/p>\n<p>WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told a virtual news conference in Geneva on Monday that its highest daily tally of new infections was recorded, with the virus raging in the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 has claimed the lives of more than 403,000 people out of at least seven million infected, since the pandemic broke out in China last December.<\/p>\n<p>After East Asia, Europe became the epicentre of the disease, but it has now been overtaken by the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the situation in Europe is improving, globally it is worsening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than 100,000 cases have been reported on nine of the past 10 days. Yesterday, more than 136,000 cases were reported \u2014 the most in a single day so far,\u201d Ghebreyesus said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, almost 75 percent of Sunday\u2019s cases came from 10 countries, mostly in the Americas and South Asia.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) has admitted that COVID-19 situation is getting worse around the world. WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told a virtual news conference in Geneva on Monday that its highest daily tally of new infections was recorded, with the virus raging in the Americas. COVID-19 has claimed the lives of more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224577,"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-224576","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\/224576","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=224576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/224577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}