{"id":40176,"date":"2021-12-29T09:55:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T00:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/29\/who-warns-omicron-could-overwhelm-health-systems-as-cases-rise-to-record-highs-in-europe"},"modified":"2021-12-29T09:55:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T00:55:30","slug":"who-warns-omicron-could-overwhelm-health-systems-as-cases-rise-to-record-highs-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40176","title":{"rendered":"WHO warns Omicron could overwhelm health systems as cases rise to record highs in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Restrictions return in China, South Africa and Germany as countries around the world struggle to contain new variant<\/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 Health Organization has warned that the Omicron coronavirus variant could lead to overwhelmed healthcare systems even though early studies suggest it sparks milder disease, as daily case records fell across Europe and the US while <strong>China<\/strong>, <strong>South Africa<\/strong> and <strong>Germany<\/strong> brought back tough restrictions to stamp out infections.<\/p>\n<p>Covid-19 surges have wreaked havoc around the world, forcing many nations to make tough choices between economically punishing restrictions and controlling the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/29\/who-warns-omicron-could-overwhelm-health-systems-as-cases-rise-to-record-highs-in-europe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restrictions return in China, South Africa and Germany as countries around the world struggle to contain new variantCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe World Health Organization has warned that the Omicron coronavirus varian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2759,"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":[50,1066,221,914,2458,299,532,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-europe","category-infectious-diseases","category-omicron-variant","category-science","category-south-africa","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\/40176","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\/2759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40177,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40176\/revisions\/40177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}