{"id":37954,"date":"2021-07-21T17:31:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T00:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37954"},"modified":"2021-07-21T17:31:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T00:31:16","slug":"who-chief-virus-risk-inevitable-at-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37954","title":{"rendered":"WHO chief: Virus risk inevitable at Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that the risk of COVID-19 spreading at the Olympics is inevitable as tens of thousands gather for the global competition.<\/p>\n<p>WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/slblwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshbrvlmml_tmblvvhzhklczcpwbbbw.html?a=&amp;b=40883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/slblwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshbrvlmml_tmblvvhzhklczcpwbbbw.html?a%3D%26b%3D40883&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1626991272859000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFeFnJUelvFhrYW297MYjx3dGXA1Q\">keynote speech<\/a>\u00a0at an International Olympics Committee (IOC) meeting that cases at the Olympics should be expected and what matters is how organizers respond to infections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mark of success in the coming fortnight is not zero cases, and I know that some cases have already been detected,\u201d he said. \u201cThe mark of success is making sure that any cases are identified, isolated, traced and cared for as quickly as possible, and onward transmission is interrupted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/frqrtcqzyddwpcpdwbjyywrryqwldqdffnyzcgldshrjjy_tmblvvhzhklczcpwbbbw.html?a=&amp;b=40883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/frqrtcqzyddwpcpdwbjyywrryqwldqdffnyzcgldshrjjy_tmblvvhzhklczcpwbbbw.html?a%3D%26b%3D40883&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1626991272859000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEVHBZ9oVlj1zv_e0jvXSaNitVkGw\">Almost 80 cases<\/a>\u00a0have been connected to the Olympics, including 33 among international visitors, as of Wednesday \u2014 two days before the opening ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Tedros praised the IOC for having \u201cdone your best\u201d to reduce transmission with COVID-19 safety measures, saying the Olympics\u2019 success could show \u201ca demonstration of what is possible with the right plans and the right measures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the director-general also issued a stark warning to the world, calling the pandemic \u201ca test\u201d that \u201cthe world is failing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u200b\u200b\u201cThe pandemic will end when the world chooses to end it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s in our hands.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chief of the World Health&#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-37954","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\/37954","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=37954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37955,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37954\/revisions\/37955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}