{"id":34958,"date":"2022-05-04T07:48:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T07:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=34958"},"modified":"2022-05-04T07:48:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T07:48:15","slug":"covid-cases-surge-in-south-africa-again-just-months-after-it-became-omicron-hotspot-of-world-amid-rise-of-new-variants-but-experts-say-theres-no-reason-to-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/05\/04\/covid-cases-surge-in-south-africa-again-just-months-after-it-became-omicron-hotspot-of-world-amid-rise-of-new-variants-but-experts-say-theres-no-reason-to-panic\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid cases surge in South Africa again just months after it became Omicron hotspot of world amid rise of new variants\u2014 but experts say there&#8217;s no reason to panic"},"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-33852\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/omicron-variant-BA2-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/omicron-variant-BA2-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/omicron-variant-BA2-770x417.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/omicron-variant-BA2-360x195.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/omicron-variant-BA2.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Experts have urged people not to panic as\u00a0<a id=\"mol-7575a8a0-cad6-11ec-bb9f-c5716b0774d7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/south_africa\/index.html\">South Africa<\/a> once again becomes a focal point of the pandemic amid a fresh Covid surge of new subvariants. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-10777879\/Covid-cases-surge-South-Africa-just-months-Omicron-hotspot.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>Experts have urged people not to panic as\u00a0South Africa once again becomes a focal point of the pandemic amid a fresh Covid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34958","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\/2022\/01\/omicron-variant-BA2.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34958","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=34958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34959,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34958\/revisions\/34959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}