{"id":259227,"date":"2020-06-24T22:03:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T02:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=259227"},"modified":"2020-06-24T22:03:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T02:03:33","slug":"un-confirms-28-of-its-staff-died-from-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/24\/un-confirms-28-of-its-staff-died-from-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"UN confirms 28 of its staff died from coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_259228\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-259228\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ilyass-seddoug-06w8RxgSzF0-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-259228 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ilyass-seddoug-06w8RxgSzF0-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ilyass-seddoug-06w8RxgSzF0-unsplash.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ilyass-seddoug-06w8RxgSzF0-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ilyass-seddoug-06w8RxgSzF0-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ilyass-seddoug-06w8RxgSzF0-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-259228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a statement, UN Information Services Director Alessandra Vellucci said they were among the 1,140 staff who had contracted the virus as of June 21. (File photo: Ilyass SEDDOUG\/Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>GENEVA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The United Nations on Tuesday announced that 28 of its staff members have died due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, UN Information Services Director Alessandra Vellucci said they were among the 1,140 staff who had contracted the virus as of June 21.<\/p>\n<p>No other information was provided.<\/p>\n<p>Since originating in Wuhan, China last December, the pandemic has claimed more than 474,600 lives in 188 countries and regions.<\/p>\n<p>More than 9.18 million cases have been reported worldwide, while more than 4.6 million patients have recovered, according to figures compiled by the US-based Johns Hopkins University.\u00a0<em><strong>(Anadolu)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; GENEVA\u00a0\u2013 The United Nations on Tuesday announced that 28 of its staff members have died due to the coronavirus &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":259228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259229,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259227\/revisions\/259229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}