{"id":4184,"date":"2022-04-15T17:05:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T20:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/?p=4184"},"modified":"2022-04-15T17:22:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T20:22:58","slug":"oms-casos-de-covid-e-mortes-na-africa-caem-para-niveis-ainda-mais-baixos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/2022\/04\/15\/oms-casos-de-covid-e-mortes-na-africa-caem-para-niveis-ainda-mais-baixos\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO: COVID cases, deaths in Africa drop to lowest levels yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/taedros-site.webp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/taedros-site.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: Aljazeera<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number of coronavirus cases and deaths in Africa have dropped to their lowest levels since the pandemic began, marking the longest decline yet seen in the disease, according to the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Thursday, the U.N. health agency said COVID-19 infections due to the Omicron surge had \u201ctanked\u201d from a peak of more than 308,000 weekly cases to fewer than 20,000 last week. Cases and deaths fell by 29 percent and 37 percent respectively in the last week; deaths decreased to 239 from the previous week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2022\/04\/08\/nigerian-navies-conduct-joint-anti-piracy-drills-in-lagos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via: Aljazeera \u201cThe number of coronavirus cases and deaths in Africa have dropped to their lowest levels since the pandemic began, marking the longest decline yet seen in the disease, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/2022\/04\/15\/oms-casos-de-covid-e-mortes-na-africa-caem-para-niveis-ainda-mais-baixos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WHO: COVID cases, deaths in Africa drop to lowest levels yet<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[43,300,301],"tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.10.7","language":"en","enabled_languages":["br","en"],"languages":{"br":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4184"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4201,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184\/revisions\/4201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}