{"id":33804,"date":"2021-09-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/?guid=4c1341c442321916152a92d98fd169cd"},"modified":"2021-09-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T00:00:00","slug":"covid-19-who-says-coronavirus-third-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/covid-19-who-says-coronavirus-third-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: WHO says coronavirus third wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization\u2019s Africa regional body says the current wave of COVID-19 on the continent is easing off but warned that the \u201cfight is far from over\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>WHO Africa\u2019s director for communicable disease response Dr. Benido Impouma said that a fourth wave spreading throughout the continent during the festive season could be the \u201cmost brutal yet\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The WHO is telling countries in Africa to use the intervening time of the relative dip in cases to get prepared by strengthening their capacities for a vaccine rollout.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Impouma also mentioned that inconsistent vaccine supply to date has been affecting people\u2019s uptake of the vaccine.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>African countries have mostly relied on donations to vaccinate their populations.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Leaders attending the UN General Assembly have criticized vaccine inequity in their speeches.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: Nam News Network<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization\u2019s Africa regional body says the current wave of COVID-19 on the continent is easing off but warned that the \u201cfight is far from over\u201d.WHO Africa\u2019s director for communicable disease response Dr. Benido Impouma said that a fo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}