{"id":29306,"date":"2021-05-23T10:59:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T10:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=29306"},"modified":"2021-05-23T10:59:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T10:59:35","slug":"very-sick-covid-patients-in-africa-more-likely-to-die-report-shows-amid-fears-of-new-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/05\/23\/very-sick-covid-patients-in-africa-more-likely-to-die-report-shows-amid-fears-of-new-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Very sick Covid patients in Africa more likely to die, report shows, amid fears of new surge"},"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=\"size-medium wp-image-23948\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lungs-affected-by-CV19-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lungs-affected-by-CV19-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lungs-affected-by-CV19-770x632.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lungs-affected-by-CV19-500x411.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lungs-affected-by-CV19.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stretched resources have had a dire impact on Africa\u2019s coronavirus death toll, with the mortality rate among hospitalised patients roughly 20 percentage points higher than any other region of the world. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/medical\/very-sick-covid-patients-in-africa-more-likely-to-die-report-shows-amid-fears-of-new-surge\/ar-AAKdezf?ocid=msedgntp\">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>Stretched resources have had a dire impact on Africa\u2019s coronavirus death toll, with the mortality rate among hospitalised patients roughly 20 percentage&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29306","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\/lungs-affected-by-CV19.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29306","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=29306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29307,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29306\/revisions\/29307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}