{"id":20284,"date":"2020-07-08T12:36:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T03:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/08\/who-says-evidence-emerging-of-airborne-coronavirus-spread"},"modified":"2020-07-08T12:36:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T03:36:01","slug":"global-report-who-says-evidence-emerging-of-airborne-coronavirus-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20284","title":{"rendered":"Global report: WHO says &#8216;evidence emerging&#8217; of airborne coronavirus spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHO bows to pressure from scientists about risk from aerosol transmission; Brazil\u2019s Bolsonaro tests positive; Israel health chief resigns<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/jul\/08\/coronavirus-live-news-us-to-leave-who-as-organisation-warns-crisis-accelerating\">Coronavirus latest updates<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/07\/fauci-first-wave-coronavirus-us-nears-130000-deaths\">US still \u2018knee-deep\u2019 in pandemic says Fauci<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/07\/jair-bolsonaro-coronavirus-positive-test-brazil-president\">Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro tests positive for Covid-19<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization has acknowledged new evidence that the coronavirus spreads more widely in the air than it had previously suggested, as the Trump administration gave official notification of its withdrawal from the group.<\/p>\n<p>A day after a group of scientists said the global body <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/05\/who-underplaying-risk-of-airborne-spread-of-covid-19-say-scientists\">was underplaying the risk of airborne transmission <\/a>between people, a senior WHO official said there was \u201cevidence emerging\u201d of airborne transmission of the coronavirus, but that it was not definitive.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/08\/who-says-evidence-emerging-of-airborne-coronavirus-spread\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO bows to pressure from scientists about risk from aerosol transmission; Brazil\u2019s Bolsonaro tests positive; Israel health chief resignsCoronavirus latest updatesUS still \u2018knee-deep\u2019 in pandemic says FauciBrazilian president Jair Bolsonaro tests posit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1020,"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":[50,1069,914,512,554,47,631,1045],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-trump-administration","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-world-health-organization"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20284","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\/1020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20285,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20284\/revisions\/20285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}