{"id":30912,"date":"2020-02-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/06\/who-seeks-675-million-for-coronavirus-fight\/"},"modified":"2020-02-07T17:10:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T17:10:10","slug":"who-seeks-675-million-for-coronavirus-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/06\/who-seeks-675-million-for-coronavirus-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO Seeks &#36;675 Million for Coronavirus Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>In the last 24 hours, agency has recorded the largest increase in cases since the start of the epidemic<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, Feb. 6, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; The World Health Organization is seeking $675 million to help countries deal with the expected spread of the new coronavirus that originated in China.<\/p>\n<p>That is a large amount but is &#8220;much less than the bill we will face if we do not invest in preparedness now,&#8221; said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Ph.D., the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>In the last 24 hours, WHO has recorded the largest increase in cases since the start of the epidemic, according to Tedros.<\/p>\n<p>He also downplayed published comments by a WHO coronavirus emergency committee member who called China&#8217;s initial response to the outbreak &#8220;reprehensible&#8221; and said that cases were reported too slowly. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think it helps now&#8221; to speculate about early mistakes in the epidemic, Tedros said, the <i>AP<\/i> reported. &#8220;Let&#8217;s take the action we can take today to prevent this outbreak from spreading all over the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/bad1289a646baea20398071e7093f2f1\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/detail\/05-02-2020-us-675-million-needed-for-new-coronavirus-preparedness-and-response-global-plan\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Health Organization<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last 24 hours, agency has recorded the largest increase in cases since the start of the epidemic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":30953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-30912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}