{"id":45857,"date":"2022-03-09T15:43:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T23:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45857"},"modified":"2022-03-09T15:43:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T23:43:15","slug":"who-drop-in-global-covid-19-cases-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45857","title":{"rendered":"WHO: DROP IN GLOBAL COVID-19 CASES CONTINUES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization said Wednesday the drop in global COVID-19 cases has continued this week.<\/p>\n<p>The agency stated cases have dropped 5 percent from the previous week as the downward trend has continued for a more than a month,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/bqgbvsdkzppynsnpyjgzzybbzdympdpttqzkscmpjjlbcl_tcmlvvhzhklcbcjcmjzh.html?a=&amp;b=47832\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/bqgbvsdkzppynsnpyjgzzybbzdympdpttqzkscmpjjlbcl_tcmlvvhzhklcbcjcmjzh.html?a%3D%26b%3D47832&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1646954409608000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3v1d44t_aEnb2ukktkAbBg\">The Associated Press reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The health body also reported that global deaths from the coronavirus were down 8 percent in the past two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The steepest declines in cases this past week were seen in the Middle East, at 46 percent, and in Africa, at 40 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The only area that saw an increase in infections was the Western Pacific, at 46 percent, according to the AP.<\/p>\n<p>Worldwide deaths from the pandemic surpassed 6 million this week after two years combating the disease.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. saw a 51 percent decrease in cases over the last 14 days, according to data collected by The New York Times. On Tuesday,\u00a0Hawaii became the last state to drop its mask mandate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization said Wednesday&#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-45857","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\/45857","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=45857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45858,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45857\/revisions\/45858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}