{"id":176266,"date":"2020-12-30T21:08:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T19:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-news-how-do-the-covid-19-variants-found-in-the-uk-and-south-africa-affect-the-illness-why-are-they-more-infectious-and-will-they-make-you-sicker\/"},"modified":"2020-12-30T21:08:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T19:08:18","slug":"sa-news-how-do-the-covid-19-variants-found-in-the-uk-and-south-africa-affect-the-illness-why-are-they-more-infectious-and-will-they-make-you-sicker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-news-how-do-the-covid-19-variants-found-in-the-uk-and-south-africa-affect-the-illness-why-are-they-more-infectious-and-will-they-make-you-sicker\/","title":{"rendered":"SA News: How do the COVID-19 variants found in the UK and South Africa affect the illness? Why are they more infectious? And will they make you sicker?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=7CD2F23F550D430AB10F81C89715DA7D&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.abc.net.au%2fnews%2f2020-12-31%2fwhat-are-the-south-african-and-uk-variants-of-covid-19%2f13022430&#038;c=9593828236102673381&#038;mkt=en-gb\">How do the COVID-19 variants found in the UK and South Africa affect the illness? Why are they more infectious? And will they make you sicker?<\/a>: The coronavirus variants detected in South Africa and the United Kingdom are probably more contagious than the common strain \u2014 but there are still many unknowns.<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=7CD2F23F550D430AB10F81C89715DA7D&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.abc.net.au%2fnews%2f2020-12-31%2fwhat-are-the-south-african-and-uk-variants-of-covid-19%2f13022430&#038;c=9593828236102673381&#038;mkt=en-gb\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do the COVID-19 variants found in the UK and South Africa affect the illness? Why are they more infectious? And will they make you sicker?: The coronavirus variants detected in South Africa and the United Kingdom are probably more contagious than the common strain \u2014 but there are still many unknowns. Source: &#8220;South Africa&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/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":[6907,428,37606,3591,9322,21857,3432,830,39997,3576,3756,39934],"class_list":{"0":"post-176266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-affect","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-covid19","10":"tag-found","11":"tag-illness","12":"tag-infectious","13":"tag-more","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-sicker","16":"tag-south","17":"tag-they","18":"tag-variants","19":"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\/176266","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=176266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}