{"id":15784,"date":"2020-03-12T02:13:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T17:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/mar\/11\/coronavirus-outbreak-described-by-who-as-pandemic-amid-alarming-levels-of-inaction-video"},"modified":"2020-03-12T02:13:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T17:13:08","slug":"coronavirus-outbreak-described-by-who-as-pandemic-amid-alarming-levels-of-inaction-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15784","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus outbreak described by WHO as &#8216;pandemic&#8217; amid &#8216;alarming levels of inaction&#8217; &ndash;&nbsp;video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization has described the outbreak of the new coronavirus as a&nbsp;pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: &#8216;We are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction. We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterised as a&nbsp;pandemic.&#8217;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/11\/ask-us-a-question-what-do-you-want-to-know-about-the-coronavirus\">Ask us a question: what do you want to know about the coronavirus?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2020\/jan\/23\/tell-us-have-you-been-affected-by-the-coronavirus\">Share your experiences<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/mar\/11\/coronavirus-outbreak-described-by-who-as-pandemic-amid-alarming-levels-of-inaction-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization has described the outbreak of the new coronavirus as a&nbsp;pandemic.WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: &#8216;We are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming lev&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[50,1069,346,451,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-health","category-italy","category-uk-news","category-us-news","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\/15784","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15785,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15784\/revisions\/15785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}