{"id":17508,"date":"2020-11-02T11:11:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T06:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=17508"},"modified":"2020-11-02T14:30:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T09:30:17","slug":"who-chief-tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus-quarantines-after-contact-with-covid-19-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/17508","title":{"rendered":"WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus quarantines after contact with COVID-19 case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Web desk, NYC,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Sunday that he had been identified as a contact of someone who tested positive for the novel coronavirus but remained healthy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been identified as a contact of someone who has tested positive for #COVID19. I am well and without symptoms but will self-quarantine over the coming days, in line with @WHO protocols, and work from home,\u201d he said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I have been identified as a contact of someone who has tested positive for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a>. I am well and without symptoms but will self-quarantine over the coming days, in line with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WHO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WHO<\/a> protocols, and work from home.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrTedros\/status\/1323032927492542465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is critically important that we all comply with health guidance. This is how we will break chains of #COVID19 transmission, suppress the virus, and protect health systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy @WHO colleagues and I will continue to engage with partners in solidarity to save lives and protect the vulnerable. Together!,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 has claimed more than 1.19 million lives in 189 countries and regions since first being detected in Wuhan, China in December last year.<\/p>\n<p>The US, India and Brazil are currently the worst-hit countries.<\/p>\n<p>Over 46 million cases have been reported worldwide, with recoveries exceeding 31 million, according to figures compiled by US-based Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web desk, NYC, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Sunday that he had been identified as a contact of someone who tested positive for the novel coronavirus but remained healthy. \u201cI have been identified as a contact of someone who has tested positive for #COVID19. I am well and without symptoms but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17528,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17508\/revisions\/17528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}