{"id":59864,"date":"2024-07-12T11:51:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T07:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=59864"},"modified":"2024-07-12T11:51:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T07:51:21","slug":"covid-19-still-kills-1700-a-week-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2024\/07\/12\/covid-19-still-kills-1700-a-week-who\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 still kills 1,700 a week: WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>COVID-19 is still killing around 1,700 people a week around the world, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Thursday, urging those most at risk to continue receiving vaccinations against the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At a press conference, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed concern over declining vaccine coverage globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the continued death toll, \u201cdata show that vaccine coverage has declined among health workers and people over 60, which are two of the most at-risk groups.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWHO recommends that people in the highest-risk groups receive a COVID-19 vaccine within 12 months of their last dose,\u201d Adhanom added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 is still killing around 1,700 people a week around the world, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Thursday, urging those most at risk to continue receiving vaccinations against the virus. At a press conference, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed concern over declining vaccine coverage globally. Despite the continued death toll, \u201cdata show that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":59865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59864","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59866,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59864\/revisions\/59866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}