{"id":81468,"date":"2020-03-13T11:12:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T11:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=81468"},"modified":"2020-03-13T11:12:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T11:12:49","slug":"un-chief-urges-all-governments-to-immediately-scale-up-virus-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/un-chief-urges-all-governments-to-immediately-scale-up-virus-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"UN chief urges all governments to immediately \u2018scale up\u2019 virus fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>UN chief Antonio Guterres on Wednesday urged world governments to urgently scale up their response to the novel coronavirus if they are to stand a chance of stemming its spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s declaration of a pandemic is a call to action for everyone, everywhere,\u201d the secretary general said in a statement.\u201cThe best science tells us, if countries detect, test, treat, isolate, trace and mobilize their people in the response, we can go a long way to mitigating transmission,\u201d Guterres said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His appeal echoed an earlier one by the World Health Organization, which officially labelled the outbreak a pandemic on Wednesday and blamed its spread and severity on \u201calarming levels of inaction\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The declaration of a pandemic, Guterres said, was \u201calso a call for responsibility and solidarity as nations united and as people united.\u201d \u201cAs we fight the virus, we cannot let fear go viral.\u201d         <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs we mourn all those who have lost their lives and the many families who are suffering, we must show solidarity with the most vulnerable the elderly, the sick, those without reliable healthcare, and those on the edge of poverty.\u201d <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN chief Antonio Guterres on Wednesday urged world governments to urgently scale up their response to the novel coronavirus if they are to stand a chance of stemming its spread. \u201cToday\u2019s declaration of a pandemic is a call to action for everyone, everywhere,\u201d the secretary general said in a statement.\u201cThe best science tells us, if [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81470,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81468\/revisions\/81470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}