{"id":60414,"date":"2020-01-31T11:28:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T03:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60414"},"modified":"2020-01-31T11:28:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T03:28:39","slug":"un-says-nigeria-could-lose-more-than-a-million-children-to-pneumonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60414","title":{"rendered":"UN says Nigeria could lose more than a million children to pneumonia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/UN-says-Nigeria-could-lose-more-than-a-million-children-to-pneumonia-852025?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/127\/12724323.295.jpg\" alt=\"File photo\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>PARIS, Jan 31 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; About 1.4 million children could die from pneumonia over the next decade in Nigeria, according to the UN.<br><br>The UN&#8217;s children agency Unicef has in its latest forecast said Nigeria could have the world&#8217;s highest amount of deaths caused by pneumonia.<br><br>Overall, Unicef said its forecast estimates 6.3 million children could die worldwide from pneumonia.<br><br>The UN estimates India will be the second worst place for childhood pneumonia deaths and the Democratic Republic of Congo could be the third worst.<br><br>The children&#8217;s agency has said that nine million children could die from pneumonia and other major diseases in the next decade if prevention is not done.<br><br>Unicef advised that pneumonia vaccination coverage be increased to prevent the deaths and tweeted that Nigeria was already doing this. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS, Jan 31 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; About 1.4 million children could die from pneumonia over the next decade in Nigeria, according to the UN. The UN&#8217;s children agency Unicef has in its latest forecast said Nigeria could have the world&#8217;s highest amount of deaths caused by pneumonia. Overall, Unicef said its forecast estimates 6.3 million children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60414"}],"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=60414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}