{"id":4251,"date":"2024-01-10T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4251"},"modified":"2024-01-11T22:26:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T03:26:28","slug":"holiday-gatherings-and-a-new-variant-have-driven-up-covid-cases-globally-the-un-health-agency-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/holiday-gatherings-and-a-new-variant-have-driven-up-covid-cases-globally-the-un-health-agency-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday gatherings and a new variant have driven up COVID cases globally, the UN health agency says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the U.N. health agency said Wednesday holiday gatherings and the spread of the most prominent variant globally led to increased transmission of COVID-19 last month.<\/p>\n<p>Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said nearly 10,000&nbsp;deaths were reported in December, while hospital admissions during the month jumped 42% in nearly 50&nbsp;countries \u2014 mostly in Europe and the Americas \u2014 that shared such trend information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the U.N. health agency said Wednesday holiday gatherings and the spread of the most prominent variant globally led to increased transmission of COVID-19 last month.<\/p>\n<p>Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said nearly 10,000&nbsp;deaths were reported in December, while hospital admissions during the month jumped 42% in nearly 50&nbsp;countries \u2014 mostly in Europe and the Americas \u2014 that shared such trend information.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/holiday-gatherings-and-a-new-variant-have-driven-up-covid-cases-globally-the-un-health-agency-says\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Holiday gatherings and a new variant have driven up COVID cases globally, the UN health agency says<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,150,78,651,55,14,230,15,47,283],"class_list":["post-4251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-deaths","tag-hospitalizations","tag-jn-1","tag-omicron","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-statistics","tag-vaccines","tag-variants","tag-world-health-organization","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4253,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions\/4253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}