{"id":348286,"date":"2022-04-08T22:32:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T02:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=348286"},"modified":"2022-04-10T14:52:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T18:52:53","slug":"up-to-65-of-africans-have-caught-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/up-to-65-of-africans-have-caught-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Up to 65% of Africans have caught Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">A case with no symptoms is NOT a case.<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) says that around two-thirds of Africans have been exposed to the Covid-19 virus.<\/p>\n<p>A study has found a significant under-counting of infections on the continent because of so many cases with no symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>This indicates that true infections on the continent were 97 times larger than reported confirmed cases.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to journalists, WHO Regional Director for Africa Dr Matshidiso Moeti said that the analysis showed that current reported Covid-19 confirmed cases were only a fraction of the actual number of infections on the continent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/world-africa-60803122?ns_mchannel=social&amp;ns_source=twitter&amp;ns_campaign=bbc_live&amp;ns_linkname=624ef6e85fbc655faa020483%26Up%20to%2065%25%20of%20Africans%20have%20caught%20Covid%20%20-%20WHO%262022-04-07T15%3A20%3A48%2B00%3A00&amp;ns_fee=0&amp;pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:7cfb53a2-c148-454a-a471-046af6f71081&amp;pinned_post_asset_id=624ef6e85fbc655faa020483&amp;pinned_post_type=share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BBCnewsafrica\/photos\/a.292202500228\/10160461753910229\/?comment_id=10160462853125229\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:\u00a0 A case with no symptoms is NOT a case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":348288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}