{"id":14582,"date":"2020-02-18T03:24:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T18:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/17\/coronavirus-causes-mild-disease-in-four-in-five-patients-says-who"},"modified":"2020-02-18T03:24:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T18:24:33","slug":"coronavirus-causes-mild-disease-in-four-in-five-patients-says-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14582","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus causes mild disease in four in five patients, says WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19 not as deadly as Sars, figures show, and children not affected in same way as adults<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/17\/coronavirus-live-updates-us-citizens-japan-diamond-princess-cruise-ship-china-wuhan-hubei-cases-death-toll-latest-news\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Covid-19, the new coronavirus that has killed nearly 1,800 people in China, causes only mild disease in four out of five people who get it, the World Health Organization has said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt appears that Covid-19 is not as deadly as other coronaviruses, including Sars and Mers,\u201d said the WHO director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, adding that officials were \u201cstarting to get a clearer picture of the outbreak\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/17\/coronavirus-causes-mild-disease-in-four-in-five-patients-says-who\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19 not as deadly as Sars, figures show, and children not affected in same way as adultsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesCovid-19, the new coronavirus that has killed nearly 1,800 people in China, causes only mild disease in four out of five people who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":998,"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":[41,50,1069,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","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\/14582","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\/998"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14583,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14582\/revisions\/14583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}