{"id":1368575,"date":"2022-03-10T08:56:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T13:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1368575"},"modified":"2022-03-10T08:56:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T13:56:16","slug":"w-h-o-chief-tedros-demands-attention-says-coronavirus-pandemic-far-from-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/w-h-o-chief-tedros-demands-attention-says-coronavirus-pandemic-far-from-over\/","title":{"rendered":"W.H.O. Chief Tedros Demands Attention: Says Coronavirus Pandemic &#039;Far from Over&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fw-h-o-chief-tedros-demands-attention-says-coronavirus-pandemic-far-from-over%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1368575&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The coronavirus pandemic is far from over and global governments must continue testing and enforcing social compliance to fight its progress until the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) says otherwise, its Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The career bureaucrat and longstanding member of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/04\/10\/5-shocking-facts-about-who-chief-tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus\/\">Marxist-Leninist Ethiopian political party<\/a>\u00a0spoke as the world\u2019s attention has now turned to Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and the cost of living begins to soar on the back of rising fuel prices and inflation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The W.H.O. declared a public health emergency of international concern \u2013 the highest level of alarm in the U.N. health agency\u2019s regulations \u2013 on January 30, 2020, and Tedros wants the world to stay focused on that threat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo years later, more than six million people have died,\u201d Tedros told a press conference as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20220309-two-years-on-who-warns-pandemic-far-from-over\">reported<\/a> by AFP, while nearly 444 million cases have been registered.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Disgraceful <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IdX2myuS71\">https:\/\/t.co\/IdX2myuS71<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1268203374442397696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAlthough reported cases and deaths are declining globally, and several countries have lifted restrictions, the pandemic is far from over \u2013 and it will not be over anywhere until it\u2019s over everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted the 46-percent rise in new cases last week in the W.H.O.\u2019s Western Pacific region, where 3.9 million infections were recorded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe virus continues to evolve, and we continue to face major obstacles in distributing vaccines, tests and treatments everywhere they are needed,\u201d Tedros cautioned in his call to action.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20147930\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/Coronavirus-outbreak-in-China.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Workers in protective suits take a rest as people line up to register during a mass COVID-19 test outside a shopping mall in Beijing, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. (AP Photo\/Andy Wong)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He also sounded a warning on the recent plunge in testing rates, saying it left the planet blind to what coronavirus was up to even as it surges again in China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cW.H.O. is concerned that several countries are drastically reducing testing,\u201d Tedros said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis inhibits our ability to see where the virus is, how it\u2019s spreading and how it\u2019s evolving.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">WOW. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wMjjXqJg6a\">https:\/\/t.co\/wMjjXqJg6a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1248940283917565952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In its weekly update on the spread of the virus, the W.H.O said earlier the Omicron variant had \u201cglobal dominance\u201d over other mutations of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>The W.H.O. said Omicron accounted for 99.7 percent of samples collected in the last 30 days that have been sequenced and uploaded to the GISAID global science initiative.<\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coronavirus pandemic is far from over and global governments must continue testing and enforcing social compliance to fight its progress until the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) says otherwise, its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1368575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}