{"id":30337,"date":"2021-07-14T09:43:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T09:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=30337"},"modified":"2021-07-14T09:43:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T09:43:06","slug":"deadly-covid-19-delta-variant-taking-hold-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/07\/14\/deadly-covid-19-delta-variant-taking-hold-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly COVID-19 Delta variant taking hold in Africa"},"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-22151\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Africa-300x264.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Africa-300x264.png 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Africa-1024x903.png 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Africa-770x679.png 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Africa-1536x1354.png 1536w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Africa-500x441.png 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Africa.png 1754w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The deadly COVID-19 Delta variant has been reported in 22 of the 55 African states, and it could cause hundreds of thousands of deaths in the coming months, according to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/sites\/reliefweb.int\/files\/resources\/africacenter.org-Devastating%20Human%20Toll%20as%20the%20Delta%20COVID%20Variant%20Takes%20Hold%20in%20Africa.pdf\">report<\/a> by the Africa Centers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alphagalileo.org\/en-gb\/Item-Display\/ItemId\/210563?returnurl=https:\/\/www.alphagalileo.org\/en-gb\/Item-Display\/ItemId\/210563\">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>The deadly COVID-19 Delta variant has been reported in 22 of the 55 African states, and it could cause hundreds of thousands&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30337","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\/06\/Africa.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30337","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=30337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30338,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30337\/revisions\/30338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}