{"id":401517,"date":"2020-11-02T08:37:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T05:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=401517"},"modified":"2020-11-02T08:37:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T05:37:51","slug":"who-chief-quarantines-after-contact-with-covid-19-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/who-chief-quarantines-after-contact-with-covid-19-case\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO chief quarantines after contact with COVID-19 case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ankara<strong> (SONNA)<\/strong>-World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Sunday that he had been identified as a contact of someone who tested positive for the novel coronavirus but remained healthy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been identified as a contact of someone who has tested positive for #COVID19. I am well and without symptoms but will self-quarantine over the coming days, in line with @WHO protocols, and work from home,\u201d he said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is critically important that we all comply with health guidance. This is how we will break chains of #COVID19 transmission, suppress the virus, and protect health systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy @WHO colleagues and I will continue to engage with partners in solidarity to save lives and protect the vulnerable. Together!,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 has claimed more than 1.19 million lives in 189 countries and regions since first being detected in Wuhan, China in December last year.<\/p>\n<p>The US, India and Brazil are currently the worst-hit countries.<\/p>\n<p>Over 46 million cases have been reported worldwide, with recoveries exceeding 31 million, according to figures compiled by US-based Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n<p>@<strong>AA<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ankara (SONNA)-World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Sunday that he had been identified as a contact of someone who tested positive for the novel coronavirus but remained healthy. \u201cI have been identified as a contact of someone who has tested positive for #COVID19. I am well and without symptoms but will self-quarantine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-401517","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\/401517","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=401517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401519,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401517\/revisions\/401519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}