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The current situation is that 40 million confirmed cases have been reported. However, this is a gross under-reporting and the true total is more likely about 300 million cases. A total of 1.1 million deaths. IT will take years to finalise the true total as in many countries we will (more…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":5023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-apjph","8":"category-news","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.apacph.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1024px-Village_women_of_Bangladesh.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1OG9c-1iY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4888,"url":"https:\/\/www.apacph.org\/wp\/2020\/08\/apjph-editors-blog-covid-19-malaria-and-artemisinin\/","url_meta":{"origin":5020,"position":0},"title":"APJPH: Editor\u2019s Blog – COVID-19, Malaria and Artemisinin","author":"Victor Hoe","date":"9 August 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The COVID-19 pandemic is having a massive impact on health and nutrition. 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