{"id":25500,"date":"2020-10-07T07:19:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T07:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=25500"},"modified":"2020-10-07T07:19:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T07:19:22","slug":"coronavirus-may-have-infected-1-in-10-worldwide-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=25500","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus May Have Infected 1 in 10 Worldwide: WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>TUESDAY, Oct. 6, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; About 1 in 10 people worldwide may have been infected by the new coronavirus, which is more than 20 times the number of confirmed cases, a World Health Organization official said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Michael Ryan, WHO&#8217;s head of emergencies, said there are differences between urban and rural areas, and between different groups, but the overall rate means &#8220;the vast majority of the world remains at risk,&#8221; the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>He spokeat a special session of the WHO&#8217;s 34-member executive board focusing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/wuhan_coronavirus_2019-ncov\/article.htm\" rel=\"dt\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\">COVID-19<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The pandemic will continue to evolve, but tools exist to suppress transmission and save lives, according to Ryan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many deaths have been averted and many more lives can be protected,&#8221; Ryan said, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"credits\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MedicalNews\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/images.medicinenet.com\/images\/HealthDay\/healthday.png\" style=\"border: none;\"\/><br \/>Copyright \u00a9 2019 HealthDay. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>                            <!--CONTINUEREADING--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/script\/main\/art.asp?articlekey=247458\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUESDAY, Oct. 6, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; About 1 in 10 people worldwide may have been infected by the new coronavirus, which is more than 20 times the number of confirmed cases, a World Health Organization official said Monday. Dr. Michael Ryan, WHO&#8217;s head of emergencies, said there are differences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-life-style"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1601354401_fb-mnet-default.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}