{"id":28024,"date":"2020-06-20T00:02:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T18:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=28024"},"modified":"2020-06-20T00:02:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T18:32:19","slug":"covid19-150000-new-cases-globally-in-a-single-day-world-in-a-new-and-dangerous-phase-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=28024","title":{"rendered":"COVID19 | 1,50,000 new cases globally in a single day; World in a new and dangerous phase: WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the world is entering a &#8221;new and dangerous phase&#8217;.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Reuters<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Geneva: <\/strong>The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating, with Thursday\u2019s 1,50,000 new cases the highest in a single day and nearly half of them in the Americas, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asiannewshub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/images-11-1-678x405.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe world is in a new and dangerous phase,\u201d Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual briefing from WHO headquarters in Geneva. \u201cThe virus is still spreading fast, it is still deadly, and most people are still susceptible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 80.53 lakh people have been reported infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 4,53,834\u200b have died, a Reuters tally showed as of 1900 IST on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tedros, whose leadership of the WHO has been severely criticized by U.S. President Donald Trump, urged people to maintain social distancing and \u201cextreme vigilance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As well as the Americas, a large number of new cases were coming from South Asia and the Middle East, Tedros added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u2018DRIVEN BY DATA\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With many nations easing restrictions but fearful of a second wave of COVID-19 disease, WHO emergencies expert Mike Ryan urged a gradual and scientific approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cExiting lockdowns must be done carefully, in a step-wise manner, and must be driven by the data,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is no specific definition of a second wave,\u201d he added, saying new clusters did not necessarily mean a second wave while \u201csecond peaks\u201d were also possible in one wave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ryan praised Germany, China and South Korea for their handling of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WHO epidemiologist Maria van Kerkhove said easing of lockdowns had to be accompanied with good public health measures. \u201cIt is about being able not only to lift these measures carefully but being able to reactivate them,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the world is entering a &#8221;new and dangerous phase&#8217;. Reuters Geneva: The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating, with Thursday\u2019s 1,50,000 new cases the highest in a single day and nearly half of them in the Americas, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. \u201cThe world is in a new and dangerous phase,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}