{"id":30747,"date":"2023-05-02T10:13:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T10:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/who-says-risk-moderate\/"},"modified":"2023-05-02T10:32:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T10:32:16","slug":"who-says-risk-moderate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/who-says-risk-moderate\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO says risk &#8216;moderate&#8217; after laboratory in Sudan seized by fighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA (Reuters) &#8211;     The World Health Organization said on Tuesday it had found after a risk assessment that there was a &#8220;moderate risk&#8221; related to the seizure of a public health laboratory in Sudan&#8217;s capital Khartoum by one of the warring parties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The situation and the risk are being seen as moderate,&#8221; WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic told reporters at a briefing in Geneva.   <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is because the lab cannot provide its main function, that is to provide the analysis and the diagnostics because of the lack of fuel and lack of trained staff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>WHO&#8217;s representative in Sudan said last week there was a &#8220;high risk of biological hazard&#8221; in Sudan&#8217;s capital Khartoum after one of the warring parties seized the laboratory holding cholera pathogens and other hazardous materials.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Gabrielle T\u00e9trault-Farber and Emma Farge; editing by Matthias Williams)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/who-says-risk-moderate\/file-photo-a-logo-is-pictured-on-the-headquarters-of-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ410B3-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ410B3-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA (Reuters) &#8211; The World Health Organization said on Tuesday it had found after a risk assessment that there was a &#8220;moderate risk&#8221; related to the seizure of a public health laboratory in Sudan&#8217;s capital Khartoum by one of the warring parties. &#8220;The situation and the risk are being seen as moderate,&#8221; WHO spokesperson Tarik [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ410B3-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30749,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30747\/revisions\/30749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}