{"id":303421,"date":"2023-03-14T10:40:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T07:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=303421"},"modified":"2023-03-14T10:40:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T07:40:05","slug":"who-director-general-hopes-covid-19-pandemic-ends-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=303421","title":{"rendered":"WHO Director General hopes COVID-19 pandemic ends this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Geneva, SANA-World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus said he hopes the coronavirus pandemic will end in 2023, according to a statement on the WHO website.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The weekly number of reported deaths is now lower than when we first used the word &#8216;pandemic&#8217; three years ago. The improvement is significant. I am confident that at some point this year we will be able to say that COVID-19 is over as a public health emergency of international concern \u2013 and as a pandemic,&#8221; Ghebreyesus said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said everyone must learn the pandemic&#8217;s lessons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;If we do not, we will repeat the cycle of panic and neglect that has been the hallmark of the global response to epidemics and pandemics for decades,&#8221; Ghebreyesus said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is noteworthy that in December 2019, the Chinese authorities informed the World Health Organization of the outbreak of an unknown pneumonia disease in Wuhan, central China, to spread later as a global epidemic that claimed the lives of more than 7 million people all over the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bushra Dabin\/ Ruaa al-Jazaeri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva, SANA-World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus said he hopes the coronavirus pandemic will end in 2023, according to a statement on the WHO website. &#8220;The weekly number of reported deaths is now lower than when we first used the word &#8216;pandemic&#8217; three years ago. The improvement is significant. I am confident that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":303422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6987,23],"tags":[28243],"class_list":["post-303421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health-environment","category-latest-news","category-news-bar","tag-who-director-general-hopes-covid-19-pandemic-ends-this-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/303422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}