{"id":399389,"date":"2020-07-14T09:32:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T06:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=399389"},"modified":"2020-07-14T09:32:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T06:32:27","slug":"who-sounds-alarm-as-corona-virus-cases-rise-by-one-million-in-five-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/who-sounds-alarm-as-corona-virus-cases-rise-by-one-million-in-five-days\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO sounds alarm as corona virus cases rise by one million in five days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHO <strong>(SONNA) <\/strong>&#8211; The number of corona virus infections around the world hit 13 million on Monday, according to a Reuters tally, climbing by a million in just five days.<\/p>\n<p>The pandemic has now killed more than half a million people in six-and-a-half months, and World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there would be no return to the \u201cold normal\u201d for the foreseeable future, especially if preventive measures were neglected.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters\u2019 global tally, which is based on government reports, shows the disease accelerating fastest in Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>The Americas account for more than half the world\u2019s infections and half the deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of the world, especially the United States with more than 3.3 million confirmed cases, are still seeing huge increases in a first wave of COVID-19 infections, while others \u201cflatten the curve\u201d and ease lock downs.<\/p>\n<p>Some places, such as the Australian city of Melbourne and Leicester in England, are implementing a second round of shutdowns. Chinese-ruled Hong Kong, albeit with a low 1,522 cases, is to tighten social distancing measures again amid growing worries about a third wave.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO (SONNA) &#8211; The number of corona virus infections around the world hit 13 million on Monday, according to a Reuters tally, climbing by a million in just five days. The pandemic has now killed more than half a million people in six-and-a-half months, and World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-399389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399389","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=399389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399391,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399389\/revisions\/399391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}