{"id":31746,"date":"2020-08-22T07:55:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T02:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=31746"},"modified":"2020-08-22T07:55:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T02:25:30","slug":"who-hopes-coronavirus-can-be-over-in-two-years-tedros-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=31746","title":{"rendered":"WHO hopes coronavirus can be over in two years, Tedros says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/who-hopes-coronavirus-can-be-over-in-two-years-tedros-says\/article32419031.ece?homepage=true\">REUTERS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>\u201cWe have a disadvantage of globalisation, closeness, connectedness but an advantage of better technology,\u201d he told a briefing in Geneva<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The World Health Organization hopes the coronavirus pandemic will be shorter than the 1918 Spanish flu and last less than two years, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday, if the world unites and succeeds in finding a vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The WHO has always been cautious about giving estimates on how quickly the pandemic can be dealt with while there is no proven vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tedros said the 1918 Spanish flu \u201ctook two years to stop\u2026And in our situation now with more technology, and of course with more connectiveness, the virus has a better chance of spreading, it can move fast because we are more connected now,\u201d he told a briefing in Geneva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut at the same time we have also the technology to stop it and the knowledge to stop it. So we have a disadvantage of globalisation, closeness, connectedness but an advantage of better technology. So we hope to finish this pandemic (in) less than two years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He urged \u201cnational unity\u201d and \u201cglobal solidarity\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat is really key with utilising the available tools to the maximum and hoping that we can have additional tools like vaccine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 22.81 million people have been reported to be infected by the coronavirus globally since it was first identified in China last year and 793,382 have died, according to a Reuters tally.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REUTERS \u201cWe have a disadvantage of globalisation, closeness, connectedness but an advantage of better technology,\u201d he told a briefing in Geneva The World Health Organization hopes the coronavirus pandemic will be shorter than the 1918 Spanish flu and last less than two years, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday, if the world unites [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31746","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\/31746","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=31746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}