{"id":26388,"date":"2021-01-08T10:50:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T10:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=26388"},"modified":"2021-01-08T10:50:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T10:50:09","slug":"south-africa-sees-a-record-14000-new-covid-cases-while-deaths-climb-pass-400-for-the-first-time-in-months-amid-exponential-spread-of-new-mutant-strain-now-detected-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/01\/08\/south-africa-sees-a-record-14000-new-covid-cases-while-deaths-climb-pass-400-for-the-first-time-in-months-amid-exponential-spread-of-new-mutant-strain-now-detected-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa sees a record 14,000 new Covid cases while deaths climb pass 400 for the first time in months amid &#8216;exponential&#8217; spread of new mutant strain now detected in Britain"},"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 has reported a record number of coronavirus cases in a single day, driven by a new &#8216;more infectious&#8217; variant that has already been found in the UK. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9085321\/South-Africa-sees-record-14-000-Covid-cases-driven-mutant-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 has reported a record number of coronavirus cases in a single day, driven by a new &#8216;more infectious&#8217; variant that&#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-26388","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\/26388","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=26388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26389,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26388\/revisions\/26389"}],"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=26388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}