{"id":263135,"date":"2020-07-28T00:40:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T04:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=263135"},"modified":"2020-07-28T00:40:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T04:40:57","slug":"who-chief-says-global-covid-19-cases-double-over-past-6-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/28\/who-chief-says-global-covid-19-cases-double-over-past-6-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO chief says global Covid-19 cases double over past 6 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_258416\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-258416\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/94259391_2762799757122832_897168206563639296_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-258416\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/94259391_2762799757122832_897168206563639296_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/94259391_2762799757122832_897168206563639296_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/94259391_2762799757122832_897168206563639296_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/94259391_2762799757122832_897168206563639296_n-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-258416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the past six weeks, the global total number of cases has roughly doubled, Tedros said. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DrTedros.Official\/photos\/a.555336211202542\/2762799747122833\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">File photo: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>GENEVA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Monday that he will reconvene the Emergency Committee on Thursday to re-evaluate the Covid-19 pandemic, as global cases had doubled over the past six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Saying that this Thursday (July 30) marks six months since Jan. 30 when WHO declared the coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency of international concern, Tedros told a virtual press conference that almost 16 million cases have now been reported to WHO, with more than 640,000 deaths worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the sixth time a global health emergency has been declared under the International Health Regulations, but it is easily the most severe,&#8221; he said, adding that the pandemic continues to accelerate.<\/p>\n<p>In the past six weeks, the global total number of cases has roughly doubled, Tedros said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that although the world has changed, the basic measures needed to suppress transmission and save lives have not &#8212; find, isolate, test and care for cases, and trace and quarantine their contacts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Countries and communities that have followed this advice carefully and consistently have done well, either in preventing large-scale outbreaks &#8212; like Cambodia, New Zealand, Rwanda, Thailand, Vietnam, and islands in the Pacific and Caribbean &#8212; or in bringing large outbreaks under control, like Canada, China, Germany and the Republic of Korea,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA\u00a0\u2013 World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Monday that he will reconvene the Emergency Committee on Thursday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":251838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-xinhua","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263135","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263144,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263135\/revisions\/263144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}