{"id":26006,"date":"2020-12-20T11:48:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T11:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=26006"},"modified":"2020-12-20T11:48:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T11:48:40","slug":"severe-covid-19-variant-detected-in-south-africa-says-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2020\/12\/20\/severe-covid-19-variant-detected-in-south-africa-says-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe Covid-19 variant detected in South Africa, says Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21580\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/covid19_tablet_pill-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/covid19_tablet_pill-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/covid19_tablet_pill-500x300.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/covid19_tablet_pill.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A severe variant of the coronavirus has been detected in South Africa, which could explain the rapid spread of a second wave that affects younger people, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/world\/severe-covid-19-variant-detected-in-south-africa-says-minister-0\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A severe variant of the coronavirus has been detected in South Africa, which could explain the rapid spread of a second wave&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-covid-19"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/covid19_tablet_pill.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26007,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26006\/revisions\/26007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}