{"id":28070,"date":"2022-06-04T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myanmarnewsgazette.com\/?guid=0e24d37b9033154522712dfba592d053"},"modified":"2022-06-04T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T00:00:00","slug":"who-chief-covid-remains-a-real-and-present-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myanmarnewsgazette.com\/who-chief-covid-remains-a-real-and-present-danger\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO Chief: ‘COVID Remains a Real and Present Danger’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Global reported cases of COVID-19 cases and deaths \u201care near their lowest levels since the beginning of the pandemic,\u201d the World Health Organization director-general, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said Friday.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the GLOBSEC Bratislava Forum, Tedros warned, however, that \u201cIt is still far too early to say the pandemic is over. … Increasing transmission, plus decreasing testing and sequencing, plus 1 billion people still unvaccinated, equals a dangerous situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere remains a real and present danger, the WHO chief said, \u201cof a new and more virulent variant emerging that evades our vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, India\u2019s health ministry reported a slight dip in COVID-19 cases Saturday, with 3,962 new cases. On Friday, however, the daily count crossed 4,000 for the first time in about three months.<\/p>\n
Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center has recorded more than 43 million COVID cases in India with over 500,000 deaths.<\/p>\n
The global COVID infection toll is more than 531 million with 6.3 million deaths, according to Johns Hopkins. The center reported a total of 11.66 billion vaccines administered.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: Voice of America<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Global reported cases of COVID-19 cases and deaths \u201care near their lowest levels since the beginning of the pandemic,\u201d the World Health Organization director-general, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said Friday.Speaking at the GLOBSEC Bratislava Forum,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n