{"id":21630,"date":"2021-02-15T09:09:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T06:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=21630"},"modified":"2021-02-15T09:09:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T06:09:43","slug":"who-concerned-over-ebola-resurgence-in-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/15\/who-concerned-over-ebola-resurgence-in-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO Concerned Over Ebola Resurgence In West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concern over the resurgence of Ebola in West Africa and activated response efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WHO&#8217;s Regional Director Matshidiso Moeti said the agency was &#8220;ramping up readiness&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guinea&#8217;s health ministry declared an Ebola outbreak on Sunday .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government has set up a treatment centre in Gouek\u00e9 town in the south-east where the cases were reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials said newly developed vaccines would be acquired through the WHO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The WHO is on full alert and is in contact with the manufacturer [of a vaccine] to ensure the necessary doses are made available as quickly as possible to help fight back,&#8221; the AFP news agency quotes Alfred George Ki-Zerbo, the WHO representative in Guinea, as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile health officials in Congo confirmed a third new case of Ebola in the eastern part of the country on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concern over the resurgence of Ebola in West Africa and activated response efforts. WHO&#8217;s Regional Director Matshidiso Moeti said the agency was &#8220;ramping up readiness&#8221; Guinea&#8217;s health ministry declared an Ebola outbreak on Sunday . The government has set up a treatment centre in Gouek\u00e9 town in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":21631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[5943,31],"class_list":["post-21630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-ebola","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21632,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21630\/revisions\/21632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}