{"id":1488389,"date":"2022-05-23T11:45:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T15:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1488389"},"modified":"2022-05-23T11:45:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T15:45:11","slug":"covid-19-pandemic-certainly-not-over-who-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/covid-19-pandemic-certainly-not-over-who-chief-says\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Pandemic \u2018Certainly Not Over,\u2019 WHO Chief Says"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fcovid-19-pandemic-certainly-not-over-who-chief-says%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=1488389&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>Just when you though it was over, out comes the World Health Organization to say, not so fast.<\/p>\n<p>The COVID-19 pandemic is \u201cmost certainly not over,\u201d warned Tedros Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization (WHO), on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Although deaths from a current variant of COVID-19, known as Omicron, have dropped precipitously, the WHO head said \u201cwe lower our guard at our peril,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2022\/05\/1118752\">according<\/a> to the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, is COVID-19 over? No, it\u2019s most certainly not over. I know that\u2019s not the message you want to hear, and it\u2019s definitely not the message I want to deliver,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ghebreyesus told officials gathered in Geneva for the opening of the WHO\u2019s annual meeting that declining testing and sequencing means \u201cwe are blinding ourselves to the evolution of the virus.\u201d In addition, he said that while billions are vaccinated against the virus, nearly one billion people in lower-income countries still are not.<\/p>\n<p>While some 60% of the world\u2019s population is vaccinated, he said, \u201cit\u2019s not over anywhere until it\u2019s over everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ghebreyesus mentioned that \u201cReported cases are increasing in almost 70 countries in all regions,\u201d the UN reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026 And this in a world in which testing rates have plummeted,\u201d the WHO head added.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the virus is spreading rapidly in Africa, where the vaccination rate is the lowest worldwide. And he said while there appears to be ample supply of the vaccine, there is \u201cinsufficient political commitment to roll out vaccines\u201d in some countries, while there remain gaps in \u201coperational or financial capacity\u201d in other nations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn all, we see vaccine hesitancy driven by misinformation and disinformation,\u201d Ghebreyesus said. \u201cThe pandemic will not magically disappear. But we can end it. We have the knowledge. We have the tools. Science has given us the upper hand,\u201d he said, calling on countries to work together to reach 70%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you though it was over, out comes the World Health Organization to say, not so fast. The COVID-19 pandemic is \u201cmost certainly not over,\u201d warned Tedros Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization (WHO), on Sunday. Although deaths from a current variant of COVID-19, known as Omicron, have dropped precipitously, the WHO head &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":1482719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488389","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\/1488389","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}