{"id":33895,"date":"2021-04-12T17:08:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T00:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33895"},"modified":"2021-04-12T17:08:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T00:08:01","slug":"who-warns-global-covid-19-pandemic-growing-exponentially","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33895","title":{"rendered":"WHO warns global COVID-19 pandemic &#8216;growing exponentially&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top World Health Organization (WHO) officials on Monday warned against \u201ccomplacency\u201d in fighting COVID-19 amid a troubling spike in cases worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>There were 4.4 million new cases recorded in the last week, said Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO\u2019s technical lead for COVID-19, the seventh week in a row of increasing cases. That\u2019s compared to about 500,000 cases per week a year ago. Deaths have been rising for four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is growing exponentially,\u201d Van Kerkhove said of cases on a global basis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vaccines aren\u2019t the only response<\/strong>:\u00a0While vaccinations are rolling out and offer hope for gaining control of the pandemic, many countries, especially lower-income ones, have vaccinated only a small fraction of their population, amid a scramble for limited doses on a global scale.<\/p>\n<p>WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on countries and individuals to maintain other precautions like masking, distancing and testing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Global situation affects the US too:<\/strong>\u00a0If the virus is circulating anywhere in high numbers, it provides opportunities for new variants of the virus to develop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top World Health Organization (WHO) officials&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33896,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33895\/revisions\/33896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}