{"id":13916,"date":"2020-02-08T03:25:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T18:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/07\/who-warns-global-shortage-face-masks-protective-suits-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-02-08T03:25:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T18:25:04","slug":"who-warns-of-global-shortage-of-face-masks-and-protective-suits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13916","title":{"rendered":"WHO warns of global shortage of face masks and protective suits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fight against coronavirus being hampered by stockpiling of equipment, says body\u2019s chief<\/p>\n<p>The fight against the coronavirus epidemic is being hampered by serious global shortages of face masks and protective suits, according to the World Health Organization\u2019s director general, who said there was \u201cwidespread inappropriate use\u201d by those not on the frontline caring for patients.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on countries not to stockpile the protective suits that are badly needed in Chinese hospitals and praised companies who had taken the decision to supply surgical masks only to medical professionals.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/07\/who-warns-global-shortage-face-masks-protective-suits-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fight against coronavirus being hampered by stockpiling of equipment, says body\u2019s chiefThe fight against the coronavirus epidemic is being hampered by serious global shortages of face masks and protective suits, according to the World Health Organizati&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":256,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,918,50,1069,346,914,512,916,299,79,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-biology","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-science","category-society","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13917,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13916\/revisions\/13917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}