{"id":36206,"date":"2021-01-12T09:20:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T07:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=36206"},"modified":"2021-01-12T11:15:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T09:15:08","slug":"get-covid-19-vaccinations-for-high-risk-populations-underway-within-100-days-worldwide-tedros-urges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vauen\/get-covid-19-vaccinations-for-high-risk-populations-underway-within-100-days-worldwide-tedros-urges\/","title":{"rendered":"Get COVID-19 vaccinations for \u2018high-risk\u2019 populations underway within 100 days worldwide, Tedros urges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>There needs to be a \u201ccollective commitment\u201d to get vaccinations underway worldwide for health workers and others who are at high risk of catching COVID-19, within the next 100 days, said the UN health agency chief on Monday. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) was briefing journalists in Geneva, a year on from the first ever recorded COVID-19 death. Today, there are more than 1.93 million dead, and nearly 90 million confirmed cases.<\/p>\n<p>This is separate from another \u201cWHO origins\u201d mission team, whose access to Wuhan to study how the pandemic began, was delayed last week. That international team \u2013 \u201cdistinguished experts from 10 institutions and countries\u201d \u2013 has begun its trip, in collaboration with colleagues in China, said Tedros.<\/p>\n<p>He said yet another new variant or mutation of the virus, had emerged in Japan over the weekend, while transmissibility \u201cappears to be increasing\u201d. Although the increased infectiousness can drive more cases, hospitalizations and deaths, \u201cat present, the variants do no seem to show increased severity of disease\u201d, he added, offering some reassurance.<\/p>\n<p>Most critical, said Tedros, is to effectively sequence the DNA and composition of the virus, \u201cso we know how it\u2019s changing and how to respond\u201d. There may be a need to \u201ctweak\u201d both diagnostics and vaccines in order to keep pace with the mutations, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2021\/01\/1081852\">The UN<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There needs to be a \u201ccollective commitment\u201d to get vaccinations underway worldwide for health workers and others who are at high risk of catching COVID-19,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5594,34,35],"tags":[7690,10569,383],"class_list":["post-36206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chief-editors-choice","category-vauen","category-vaufien","tag-covid-19-vaccine","tag-high-risk-population","tag-un","wpcat-5594-id","wpcat-34-id","wpcat-35-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/YK_lippu-1.jpg?fit=100%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36260,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36206\/revisions\/36260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}