{"id":37422,"date":"2021-03-23T22:23:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T16:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=37422"},"modified":"2021-03-23T22:23:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T16:53:37","slug":"rising-cases-deaths-are-truly-worrying-trends-who-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=37422","title":{"rendered":"Rising cases, Deaths are \u2018Truly Worrying Trends\u2019: WHO Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The recent increases in Covid-19 cases and deaths represent \u201ctruly worrying trends,\u201d said World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who warned rich nations against hoarding vaccines.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cCases are increasing in most regions,\u201d Tedros said at a virtual event hosted by the World Trade Organization. \u201cWe continue to see the impact of variants, opening up societies and inequitable vaccine rollout.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The rapid development of vaccines has given some hope, but rich countries are not sharing them equitably with poorer and developing nations, Tedros said. As transmission continues, more variants are likely to emerge, including those that could evade vaccines.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe global access to vaccines are at risk because of the demands that high- and upper middle-income countries are putting on the global supply,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is not just a moral outrage, it is also economically and epidemiologically self defeating.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>These trends could put the world back at \u201csquare one,\u201d Tedros said. \u201cAs long as the virus continues to circulate anywhere, people will continue to die, trade and travel will continue to be disrupted and the economic recovery will be further delayed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent increases in Covid-19 cases and deaths represent \u201ctruly worrying trends,\u201d said World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who warned rich nations against hoarding vaccines. \u201cCases are increasing in most regions,\u201d Tedros said at a virtual event hosted by the World Trade Organization. \u201cWe continue to see the impact of variants, opening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37422","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=37422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}