{"id":22567,"date":"2021-03-23T11:21:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T08:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=22567"},"modified":"2021-03-23T11:21:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T08:21:56","slug":"african-countries-keen-on-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/23\/african-countries-keen-on-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-who\/","title":{"rendered":"African Countries Keen On AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine: WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA (Reuters) &#8211; No countries in Africa have refused the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine due to any remaining health concerns, a senior official of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Mariangela Simao, WHO assistant director-general for drug access, vaccines and pharmaceuticals, told a news conference: &acirc;&#128;&#156;It has all returned to normal, we don&acirc;&#128;&#153;t have any countries refusing the AstraZeneca (vaccine) on the African continent.&acirc;&#128;&#157;<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>WHO senior adviser Bruce Aylward said: &acirc;&#128;&#156;There&acirc;&#128;&#153;s a lot of confidence&acirc;&#128;&#157; in the Astrazeneca Covid-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA (Reuters) &#8211; No countries in Africa have refused the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine due to any remaining health concerns, a senior official of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. Mariangela Simao, WHO assistant director-general for drug access, vaccines and pharmaceuticals, told a news conference: &acirc;&#128;&#156;It has all returned to normal, we don&acirc;&#128;&#153;t have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":22568,"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":[356,467,98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-22567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","category-health","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22567","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=22567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22569,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22567\/revisions\/22569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}