{"id":21947,"date":"2020-08-22T13:43:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T04:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/22\/global-report-who-says-world-could-rein-in-pandemic-in-less-than-two-years"},"modified":"2020-08-22T13:43:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T04:43:17","slug":"global-report-who-says-world-could-rein-in-pandemic-in-less-than-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21947","title":{"rendered":"Global report: WHO says world could rein in pandemic in less than two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea records most cases since early March; South Africa infections pass 600,000; Brazil on \u2018downward trend\u2019 <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The world should be able to rein in the coronavirus pandemic in less than two years, the World Health Organization has said, as South Korea reported the most daily infections since early March and expanded social distancing measures across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO\u2019s chief, <strong>Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus<\/strong>, struck a partly optimistic note when he drew comparisons between the Covid-19 pandemic and the with the 1918 flu pandemic, saying technology could help end the spread.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/22\/global-report-who-says-world-could-rein-in-pandemic-in-less-than-two-years\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea records most cases since early March; South Africa infections pass 600,000; Brazil on \u2018downward trend\u2019 Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe world should be able to rein in the coronavirus pandemic in less than two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":378,"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":[452,1069,526,533,532,222,746,1045],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brazil","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-france","category-germany","category-south-africa","category-south-korea","category-spain","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\/21947","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\/378"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21948,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21947\/revisions\/21948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}