{"id":175837,"date":"2020-12-23T19:08:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T17:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-news-why-is-south-africas-new-variant-so-scary-uk-bans-travel-to-sa-where-newly-discovered-mutant-thats-even-more-contagious-is-driving-massive-second-wave-among-young-people\/"},"modified":"2020-12-23T19:08:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T17:08:36","slug":"sa-news-why-is-south-africas-new-variant-so-scary-uk-bans-travel-to-sa-where-newly-discovered-mutant-thats-even-more-contagious-is-driving-massive-second-wave-among-young-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-news-why-is-south-africas-new-variant-so-scary-uk-bans-travel-to-sa-where-newly-discovered-mutant-thats-even-more-contagious-is-driving-massive-second-wave-among-young-people\/","title":{"rendered":"SA News: Why is South Africa’s new variant so scary? UK bans travel to SA where newly discovered mutant that’s even more contagious is driving massive second wave among young people"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why is South Africa’s new variant so scary? UK bans travel to SA where newly discovered mutant that’s even more contagious is driving massive second wave among young people<\/a>: Cases in South Africa have risen from fewer than 3,000 a day at the start of December to more than 9,500 a day as of Tuesday, apparently driven by a variant called 501.V2.
\nSource:<\/strong> “South Africa” – BingNews<\/a><\/small>
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\u2018Highly concerning\u2019 variant of Covid from South Africa in UK as highest number of cases in a day recorded<\/a>: Highly concerning’ variant of Covid from South Africa in UK as highest number of cases in a day recorded | News …
\nSource:<\/strong> “South Africa” – BingNews<\/a><\/small>
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A travel ban between the UK and South Africa is in place – and recent visitors must quarantine<\/a>: The UK government has imposed an immediate travel ban from the UK to South Africa after a new Covid-19 strain was discovered. Speaking at Downing Street press conference on Wednesday (23 Dec), Health …
\nSource:<\/strong> “South Africa” – BingNews<\/a><\/small>
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Why is South Africa’s new variant so scary? UK bans travel to SA where newly discovered mutant that’s even more contagious is driving massive second wave among young people: Cases in South Africa have risen from fewer than 3,000 a day at the start of December to more than 9,500 a day as of Tuesday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[4635,3935,8197,39939,5686,3575,3668,6611,3432,39925,7641,830,3073,24561,3651,3576,12112,2292,39893,9057,3933],"class_list":{"0":"post-175837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-africas","8":"tag-among","9":"tag-bans","10":"tag-contagious","11":"tag-discovered","12":"tag-driving","13":"tag-even","14":"tag-massive","15":"tag-more","16":"tag-mutant","17":"tag-newly","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-people","20":"tag-scary","21":"tag-second","22":"tag-south","23":"tag-thats","24":"tag-travel","25":"tag-variant","26":"tag-wave","27":"tag-young","28":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}