{"id":38862,"date":"2021-08-17T17:53:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T00:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38862"},"modified":"2021-08-17T17:53:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T00:53:14","slug":"who-warns-afghanistans-collapse-could-worsen-coronavirus-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38862","title":{"rendered":"WHO warns Afghanistan&#8217;s collapse could worsen coronavirus crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) warned Tuesday that the collapse of Afghanistan\u2019s government could worsen the COVID-19 crisis as people are displaced amid the Taliban\u2019s takeover.<\/p>\n<p>The chaos in Afghanistan following the U.S. withdrawal of troops has sparked fear among diplomats and citizens seeking to flee the country, making coronavirus precautions difficult to maintain, WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic said during a United Nations briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, when we have situations with people on the move, these individual and collective measures are difficult to put in place and thus increases the risk of COVID-19 but other infectious diseases as well,\u201d Jasarevic said.<\/p>\n<p>The pandemonium at Kabul\u2019s international airport is also \u201cdelaying urgently needed\u201d health supplies, he said, noting that \u201cdisruption to health services can have a dire\u201d effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ongoing conflict is setting a heavy toll on the already fragile health system in Afghanistan that has been facing a shortage of essential medical supplies and equipment in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic,\u201d Jasarevic said.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, COVID-19 vaccinations have slowed in the country, Jasarevic noted, saying he hopes they pick up again \u201cdepending on the security situation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) warned&#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-38862","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\/38862","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=38862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38863,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38862\/revisions\/38863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}