{"id":273121,"date":"2024-08-07T09:25:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T01:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=273121"},"modified":"2024-08-07T09:25:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T01:25:29","slug":"olympics-sees-40-plus-covid-cases-as-global-figures-rise-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=273121","title":{"rendered":"Olympics sees 40-plus Covid cases as global figures rise: WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2024\/08\/06\/image-202799-1722947581.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>GENEVA, Aug 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; More than 40 athletes at the 2024 Paris Olympics have tested positive for Covid-19 highlighting a new global rise in cases, the World Health Organization said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The WHO said the virus behind the Covid-19 pandemic was still circulating and countries need to sharpen up their response systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several high profile athletes have suffered from Covid-19 at the Paris Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>British swimmer Adam Peaty tested positive a day after winning silver in the 100m breaststroke when he had not felt well, his team said. Australian medal hope Lani Pallister pulled out of the women&#8217;s 1500m freestyle after falling ill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Data from 84 countries shows that the percentage of positive tests for SARS-CoV-2 &#8212; the virus that causes Covid-19 disease &#8212; &#8220;has been rising for several weeks&#8221;, said Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO&#8217;s epidemic and pandemic<br>preparedness and prevention director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, wastewater surveillance &#8212; which tends to give a two-to-three-week advance indication on case numbers &#8212; suggests that circulation of SARS-CoV-2 is &#8220;two to 20 times higher than what is currently being reported&#8221;, she told a media briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is significant because the virus continues to evolve and change, which puts us all at risk of a potentially more severe virus that could evade our detection and\/or our medical interventions, including vaccination.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Kerkhove said the high circulation was not typical for respiratory viruses that tend to increase in circulation in the colder months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, &#8220;in recent months, regardless of season, many countries have experienced surges of Covid-19, including at the Olympics, currently, where at least 40 athletes have tested positive,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not surprising to see athletes being infected, because as I said before, the virus is circulating quite rampantly in other countries.&#8221; &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA, Aug 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; More than 40 athletes at the 2024 Paris Olympics have tested positive for Covid-19 highlighting a new global rise in cases, the World Health Organization said. The WHO said the virus behind the Covid-19 pandemic was still circulating and countries need to sharpen up their response systems. Several high profile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":273122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,208,215,209,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273121"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273123,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273121\/revisions\/273123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/273122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}