{"id":26070,"date":"2020-12-23T17:18:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T17:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=26070"},"modified":"2020-12-23T17:18:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T17:18:31","slug":"why-is-south-africas-new-variant-so-scary-uk-bans-travel-to-sa-where-newly-discovered-mutant-thats-even-more-contagious-is-driving-massive-second-wave-among-young-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2020\/12\/23\/why-is-south-africas-new-variant-so-scary-uk-bans-travel-to-sa-where-newly-discovered-mutant-thats-even-more-contagious-is-driving-massive-second-wave-among-young-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is South Africa&#8217;s new variant so scary? UK bans travel to SA where newly discovered mutant that&#8217;s even more contagious is driving massive second wave among young people"},"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-24423\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/covid-blue-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/covid-blue-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/covid-blue-500x307.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/covid-blue-360x221.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/covid-blue.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>South Africa is suffering a powerful second wave of Covid-19 caused by a new strain of the disease similar to the British variant\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9083081\/South-Africas-second-wave-driven-mutant-Covid-19-strain.html\">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>South Africa is suffering a powerful second wave of Covid-19 caused by a new strain of the disease similar to the British&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26070","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\/08\/covid-blue.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26070","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=26070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26071,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26070\/revisions\/26071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}