{"id":54404,"date":"2024-07-12T16:51:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T06:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=54404"},"modified":"2024-07-12T16:51:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T06:51:41","slug":"covid-still-kills-1700-a-week-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=54404","title":{"rendered":"Covid still kills 1700 a week: WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Covid-19 is still killing around 1,700 people a week around the world, the World Health Organization said Thursday, as it urged at-risk populations to keep up with their vaccinations against the disease.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus sounded a warning on declining vaccine coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the continued death toll, &#8220;data show that vaccine coverage has declined among health workers and people over 60, which are two of the most at-risk groups,&#8221; the UN health agency&#8217;s chief told a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;WHO recommends that people in the highest-risk groups receive a Covid-19 vaccine within 12 months of their last dose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More than seven million Covid deaths have been reported to the WHO, though the true toll of the pandemic is thought to be far higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19 is still killing around 1,700 people a week around the world, the World Health Organization said Thursday, as it urged at-risk populations to keep up with their vaccinations against the disease. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus sounded a warning on declining vaccine coverage. Despite the continued death toll, &#8220;data show that vaccine coverage has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1961],"class_list":["post-54404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-covid-still-kills-1700-a-week-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}