{"id":23961,"date":"2021-02-18T08:51:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T08:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=23961"},"modified":"2021-02-18T08:51:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T08:51:24","slug":"corona-infections-down-16-percent-in-one-week-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2021\/02\/18\/corona-infections-down-16-percent-in-one-week-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Corona infections down 16 percent in one week: WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News Desk:<\/strong> The World Health Organization (WHO) says the global coronavirus epidemic has begun to decline. The rate of virus infection has dropped by 16 percent in the past week. The company said in a statement on Tuesday night. News of the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>Analyzing data from the previous week since Sunday, the WHO said the death toll had dropped by 10 percent in the past week. During this period, 61,000 people have died and about 2.6 million people have been infected.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO also said that corona infections have decreased in five of the six regions in the world. Of these, 20 percent were in Africa, 20 percent in the Western Pacific, 16 percent in Europe, 16 percent in the United States, and 13 percent in Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<p>However, corona infections in the eastern Mediterranean region have risen by 6 percent, the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>As of midnight on Wednesday, the number of people infected with the coronavirus worldwide stood at 10,97,29,569, according to the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE). Of these, 24 lakh 24 thousand 798 people have died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Desk: The World Health Organization (WHO) says the global coronavirus epidemic has begun to decline. The rate of virus infection has dropped by 16 percent in the past week. The company said in a statement on Tuesday night. News of the Guardian. Analyzing data from the previous week since Sunday, the WHO said the death toll had dropped by 10 percent in the past week. During this period, 61,000 people have died and about 2.6 million people have been infected. The WHO also said that corona infections have decreased<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":23962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23963,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23961\/revisions\/23963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}