{"id":26904,"date":"2021-02-01T19:12:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T19:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=26904"},"modified":"2021-02-01T19:12:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T19:12:20","slug":"why-is-the-south-african-covid-variant-causing-panic-and-do-vaccines-work-against-it-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-mutation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/02\/01\/why-is-the-south-african-covid-variant-causing-panic-and-do-vaccines-work-against-it-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-mutation\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the South African Covid variant causing panic? And do vaccines work against it? Everything you need to know about the mutation"},"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-23049\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/corona-virus-cdc-image-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/corona-virus-cdc-image-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/corona-virus-cdc-image-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/corona-virus-cdc-image-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/corona-virus-cdc-image-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/corona-virus-cdc-image-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/corona-virus-cdc-image.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Health officials today began a mass\u00a0<a id=\"mol-96306320-64af-11eb-9bc1-81b31c2fe6f9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/coronavirus\/index.html\">coronavirus<\/a> testing programme in eight areas of England to try to contain the South African variant of the virus. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9210799\/What-know-South-African-coronavirus-variant.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>Health officials today began a mass\u00a0coronavirus testing programme in eight areas of England to try to contain the South African variant of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26904","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\/07\/corona-virus-cdc-image.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26904","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=26904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26905,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26904\/revisions\/26905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}