{"id":397859,"date":"2020-04-05T11:19:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T08:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=397859"},"modified":"2020-04-05T11:26:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T08:26:34","slug":"red-cross-concerned-about-impact-of-covid-19-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/red-cross-concerned-about-impact-of-covid-19-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Cross concerned about impact of COVID-19 in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu (SONNA):-The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Saturday said it is deeply concerned about the impact that COVID-19 could have on Somalian communities.<\/p>\n<p>Somalia is at a critical juncture where immediate action can still curb the spread of COVID-19 and save lives, ICRC said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Somalia has seven confirmed COVID-19 cases so far, with no deaths, and one recovery, according to figures compiled by the U.S.-based Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Somalia is at a crossroads, where we can rapidly scale up to get information and resources out to communities and health care facilities against COVID-19, or move too slowly and never catch up,&#8221; said Juerg Eglin, ICRC&#8217;s head of delegation for Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Speed is critical, and we are working with our colleagues at the Somali Red Crescent to fight COVID-19 from fully taking hold,&#8221; Eglin added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: Anadolu <span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Agency<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu (SONNA):-The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Saturday said it is deeply concerned about the impact that COVID-19 could have on Somalian communities. Somalia is at a critical juncture where immediate action can still curb the spread of COVID-19 and save lives, ICRC said in a statement. Somalia has seven confirmed COVID-19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-397859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397859"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397863,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397859\/revisions\/397863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}