{"id":30229,"date":"2021-07-11T09:55:01","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T09:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=30229"},"modified":"2021-07-11T09:55:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T09:55:01","slug":"coronavirus-in-africa-five-reasons-why-covid-19-has-been-less-deadly-than-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/07\/11\/coronavirus-in-africa-five-reasons-why-covid-19-has-been-less-deadly-than-elsewhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus in Africa: Five reasons why Covid-19 has been less deadly than elsewhere"},"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-24818\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BBC-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BBC-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BBC-500x334.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BBC-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BBC.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Many African countries have been praised for waging an effective campaign to combat the spread of coronavirus despite their reputation for having fragile state heath systems. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-54418613\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/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>Many African countries have been praised for waging an effective campaign to combat the spread of coronavirus despite their reputation for having&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30229","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\/09\/BBC.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30229","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=30229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30230,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30229\/revisions\/30230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}