{"id":14425,"date":"2020-02-15T03:03:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T18:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/14\/more-than-1700-health-workers-infected-by-coronavirus-in-china"},"modified":"2020-02-15T03:03:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T18:03:25","slug":"more-than-1700-health-workers-infected-by-coronavirus-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14425","title":{"rendered":"More than 1,700 health workers infected by coronavirus in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHO is seeking information after country announced six health professionals had died<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/14\/coronavirus-latest-updates-wuhan-hubei-china-deaths-cruise-ship-sydney-cases-covid19-live-news\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest news<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The World Health Organization is seeking more information from China about the large numbers of health workers falling sick because of the coronavirus after it was revealed 1,760 of them have tested positive and six have died.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time China has included the specific numbers for healthcare professionals in the data it has provided on the spread of the epidemic. \u201cThis is a critical piece of information because health workers are the glue that holds the health system and the outbreak response together,\u201d said the WHO\u2019s director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/14\/more-than-1700-health-workers-infected-by-coronavirus-in-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO is seeking information after country announced six health professionals had diedCoronavirus \u2013 latest newsThe World Health Organization is seeking more information from China about the large numbers of health workers falling sick because of the coro&#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":[41,50,1069,346,914,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14425","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=14425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14426,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14425\/revisions\/14426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}