{"id":76,"date":"2019-12-22T09:47:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awplife.com\/demo\/medihealth-premium\/?p=76"},"modified":"2019-12-22T09:47:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:47:47","slug":"who-calls-for-emergency-meeting-as-chinese-virus-spreads-to-helpers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awplife.com\/demo\/medihealth\/2019\/12\/22\/who-calls-for-emergency-meeting-as-chinese-virus-spreads-to-helpers\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO Calls for Emergency Meeting as Chinese Virus Spreads to Helpers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The World Health Organization announced Monday that it would convene an expert panel to determine whether a&nbsp;fast-developing outbreak caused by a new virus in China&nbsp;should be declared a global health emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The news came as China reported confirmed cases in Beijing and in Guangdong province, 14 cases in health care workers\u2014a first\u2014and a confirmed incident involving the human-to-human spread of the new virus, known provisionally as 2019-nCoV. It is a coronavirus, from the same family as the viruses that caused the 2003 SARS outbreak, which sickened more than 8,000 people globally, killing nearly 800.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also comes as China prepares to celebrate the Lunar New Year when people throughout the country travel to be with family. Experts fear this event could spread the virus widely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reference:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/who-calls-for-emergency-meeting-as-chinese-virus-spreads-to-health-care-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/who-calls-for-emergency-meeting-as-chinese-virus-spreads-to-health-care-workers\/<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization announced Monday that it would convene an expert panel to determine whether a&nbsp;fast-developing outbreak caused by a new virus in China&nbsp;should be declared a global health emergency. The news came as China reported confirmed cases in Beijing and in Guangdong province, 14 cases in health care workers\u2014a first\u2014and a confirmed incident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,161],"tags":[160,162,163,164],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-health","tag-china","tag-ncov","tag-virus","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awplife.com\/demo\/medihealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awplife.com\/demo\/medihealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awplife.com\/demo\/medihealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awplife.com\/demo\/medihealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awplife.com\/demo\/medihealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/awplife.com\/demo\/medihealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awplife.com\/demo\/medihealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awplife.com\/demo\/medihealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awplife.com\/demo\/medihealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awplife.com\/demo\/medihealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}