{"id":33384,"date":"2021-12-28T10:06:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T10:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=33384"},"modified":"2021-12-28T10:06:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T10:06:45","slug":"south-african-covid-cases-fall-by-nearly-40-per-cent-in-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/12\/28\/south-african-covid-cases-fall-by-nearly-40-per-cent-in-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"South African Covid cases fall by nearly 40 per cent in a week"},"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-33130\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Omicron-covid-variant-300x198.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Omicron-covid-variant-300x198.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Omicron-covid-variant-770x509.jpeg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Omicron-covid-variant-500x331.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Omicron-covid-variant-360x238.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Omicron-covid-variant.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New infections\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/global-health\/science-and-disease\/covid-19-hospitalisations-fall-sharply-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-id=\"90\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:90,&quot;p&quot;:48,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;partnerLink&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:24,&quot;o&quot;:32}\">have continued to decline sharply<\/a> in the world\u2019s first omicron epicentre offering up a further ray of hope to other countries where the variant has spread.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/travel\/news\/south-african-covid-cases-fall-by-nearly-40-per-cent-in-a-week\/ar-AASbgEc?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>New infections\u00a0have continued to decline sharply in the world\u2019s first omicron epicentre offering up a further ray of hope to other countries&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33384","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\/2021\/12\/Omicron-covid-variant.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33384","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=33384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33385,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33384\/revisions\/33385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}