{"id":709898,"date":"2020-01-30T15:28:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T20:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=709898"},"modified":"2020-01-30T15:28:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T20:28:46","slug":"novel-coronavirus-spreads-in-us-as-who-declares-global-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=709898","title":{"rendered":"Novel coronavirus spreads in US as WHO declares global emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/GettyImages-1197627019-800x533-1.jpg\" alt=\"A serious man in a open-collar suit speaks into a microphone.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/GettyImages-1197627019.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"2667\" data-width=\"4000\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a press conference following a WHO Emergency committee to discuss whether the Coronavirus, the SARS-like virus, outbreak that began in China constitutes an international health emergency, on January 30, 2020 in Geneva. (credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"caption-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/world-health-organization-director-general-tedros-adhanom-news-photo\/1197627019?adppopup=true\">Getty | AFP<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The World Health Organization\u00a0announced today, January 30, that the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2020\/01\/heres-the-latest-on-the-novel-coronavirus-outbreak-in-wuhan\/\">outbreak of respiratory disease from the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)<\/a> in China constitutes a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/ihr\/procedures\/pheic\/en\/\">Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PHEICs are declared in extraordinary situations, such as when public health is threatened by an infectious disease that could spread internationally and requires international responses and collaboration to address. The declaration prompts additional international support efforts and releases financial resources.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference today, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (who goes by Dr. Tedros) praised China for its response efforts to the outbreak so far. The country\u2019s efforts and commitment to transparency is \u201cvery impressive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1650147#p3\">Read 13 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1650147&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=LG-ywzEvkow:xOaz_vmDlxc:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=LG-ywzEvkow:xOaz_vmDlxc:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=LG-ywzEvkow:xOaz_vmDlxc:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=LG-ywzEvkow:xOaz_vmDlxc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1650147\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Novel coronavirus spreads in US as WHO declares global emergency<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a press conference following a WHO Emergency committee to discuss whether the Coronavirus, the SARS-like virus, outbreak that began in China constitutes an international health emergency, on January &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=709898\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":709899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-709898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=709898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/709899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}