{"id":60374,"date":"2020-01-31T09:40:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T01:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60374"},"modified":"2020-01-31T09:40:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T01:40:56","slug":"china-virus-death-toll-rises-to-170-more-than-1700-new-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60374","title":{"rendered":"China virus death toll rises to 170, more than 1,700 new cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1-155.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1-155.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WUHAN (China), Jan 31 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The nationwide death toll from<br>China\u2019s viral epidemic has leapt to 170, the government said,<br>with more than 1,700 new infections confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thirty-seven of the 38 new deaths came in hard-hit Hubei province, the<br>epicentre of a contagion that is causing mounting global fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another death occurred in southwestern Sichuan province, the National<br>Health Commission reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tibet also reported its first case, the commission said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 38 new deaths marked the biggest single-day jump yet and come as a<br>massive containment effort is under way that has effectively locked down tens of millions of people in Hubei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the latest reported infections also occurred in Hubei, which<br>tallied 1,032.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Health Organization on Wednesday warned all governments to \u201ctake action\u201d over the deadly SARS-like virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hundreds of foreigners were evacuated from the epicentre of the outbreak<br>on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The contagion has spread to more than a dozen countries, with Finland and<br>the United Arab Emirates becoming the latest to report their first cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The WHO has called an urgent meeting over whether the viral<br>epidemic should be declared a global health emergency \u2014 a designation that could lead to increased international coordination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Airlines around the world are already either suspending or paring back<br>services in and out of China, following cases of human-to-human transmission outside the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Twitter that the organisation \u201cdeeply regrets\u201d what he called a \u201chuman error\u201d in WHO reports last week that referred to the global risk of the outbreak as \u201cmoderate\u201d instead of \u201chigh\u201d. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WUHAN (China), Jan 31 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The nationwide death toll fromChina\u2019s viral epidemic has leapt to 170, the government said,with more than 1,700 new infections confirmed. Thirty-seven of the 38 new deaths came in hard-hit Hubei province, theepicentre of a contagion that is causing mounting global fear. Another death occurred in southwestern Sichuan province, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60374"}],"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=60374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}