{"id":43213,"date":"2022-02-09T09:24:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T05:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=43213"},"modified":"2022-02-09T09:24:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T05:24:07","slug":"world-records-500000-deaths-since-omicron-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2022\/02\/09\/world-records-500000-deaths-since-omicron-who\/","title":{"rendered":"World records 500,000 deaths since omicron: WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday announced that half a million COVID-19 deaths had been recorded since the Omicron variant was discovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abdi Mahamud, WHO Incident Manager, COVID-19 Incident Management Support Team, said that 130 million cases and 500,000 deaths had been recorded globally since Omicron was declared a variant of concern in late November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has since rapidly overtaken Delta as the world&#8217;s dominant COVID variant because it is more transmissible, though it appears to cause less severe illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO&#8217;s Technical Lead on COVID-19, said the sheer number of Omicron cases was &#8220;astounding&#8221;, while the true number of cases and deaths would be much higher than just those known about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coronavirus has killed nearly 5.75 million people since the first cases were identified in December 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday announced that half a million COVID-19 deaths had been recorded since the Omicron variant was discovered. Abdi Mahamud, WHO Incident Manager, COVID-19 Incident Management Support Team, said that 130 million cases and 500,000 deaths had been recorded globally since Omicron was declared a variant of concern in late &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43215,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43213\/revisions\/43215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}