{"id":8317,"date":"2020-02-26T08:55:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T05:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8317"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:53","slug":"who-urges-africa-to-prepare-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/26\/who-urges-africa-to-prepare-for-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO Urges Africa To Prepare For Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The WHO earlier conducted a survey with countries to assess overall readiness for the disease and found the regional readiness level was an estimated 66 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday that the window of opportunity that Africa has had to prepare for the novel coronavirus is closing as a second case was confirmed there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Algeria\u2019s health ministry reported the country\u2019s first case of the virus, officially known as COVID-19, after tests indicated that an Italian man who arrived in the country on Feb. 17 had tested positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Africa\u2019s first COVID-19 case was reported earlier this month in Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Algeria is one of the 47 countries in the WHO African region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is the first case in the WHO African region,\u201d Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa, said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe window of opportunity the continent has had to prepare for the coronavirus is closing. All countries must ramp up their preparedness activities.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trtworld.com\/africa\/who-urges-africa-to-prepare-for-coronavirus-34116\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WHO earlier conducted a survey with countries to assess overall readiness for the disease and found the regional readiness level was an estimated 66 percent. The World Health Organization&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}