{"id":180734,"date":"2021-02-16T19:10:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T17:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-news-horror-of-covid-variant-braces-south-africa-for-battles-to-come\/"},"modified":"2021-02-16T19:10:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T17:10:58","slug":"sa-news-horror-of-covid-variant-braces-south-africa-for-battles-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-news-horror-of-covid-variant-braces-south-africa-for-battles-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"SA News: Horror of Covid variant braces South Africa for battles to come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=8AE807A49C294B2D85287708BA247CBD&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.thetimes.co.uk%2farticle%2fcovid-variant-south-africa-coronavirus-strain-fh3t6t556&#038;c=2267720021742136246&#038;mkt=en-gb\">Horror of Covid variant braces South Africa for battles to come<\/a>: Doctors panicked when younger, sicker patients flooded into hospital beds and the second wave of South Africa\u2019s pandemic hit. \u201cThey were getting the sense that something was very different this time &#8230;<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=8AE807A49C294B2D85287708BA247CBD&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.thetimes.co.uk%2farticle%2fcovid-variant-south-africa-coronavirus-strain-fh3t6t556&#038;c=2267720021742136246&#038;mkt=en-gb\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=8AE807A49C294B2D85287708BA247CBD&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.thequint.com%2fnews%2findia%2fsouth-africa-variant-strain-coronavirus-covid-19-brazil-india-health-ministry-icmr-dg&#038;c=5950502760621657274&#038;mkt=en-gb\">SA COVID Strain Detected in 4 in India, Brazil Variant in 1: Govt<\/a>: All travellers &#038; their contacts (have been) tested and quarantined,\u201d the ICMR DG said on the South Africa variant.<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=8AE807A49C294B2D85287708BA247CBD&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.thequint.com%2fnews%2findia%2fsouth-africa-variant-strain-coronavirus-covid-19-brazil-india-health-ministry-icmr-dg&#038;c=5950502760621657274&#038;mkt=en-gb\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=8AE807A49C294B2D85287708BA247CBD&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.thetimes.co.uk%2farticle%2fnew-variant-in-uk-has-south-africa-mutation-wxsvgmglv&#038;c=6813262588150647773&#038;mkt=en-gb\">New variant in UK has South Africa mutation<\/a>: A new variant of the coronavirus with a concerning cluster of mutations has been identified in the UK, leading to calls for further surge testing to contain its spread.The variant, known as B1525, has &#8230;<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=8AE807A49C294B2D85287708BA247CBD&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.thetimes.co.uk%2farticle%2fnew-variant-in-uk-has-south-africa-mutation-wxsvgmglv&#038;c=6813262588150647773&#038;mkt=en-gb\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horror of Covid variant braces South Africa for battles to come: Doctors panicked when younger, sicker patients flooded into hospital beds and the second wave of South Africa\u2019s pandemic hit. \u201cThey were getting the sense that something was very different this time &#8230; Source: &#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews SA COVID Strain Detected in 4 in [&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":[428,7943,2405,3840,37757,7430,830,3576,39893],"class_list":{"0":"post-180734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-battles","9":"tag-braces","10":"tag-come","11":"tag-covid","12":"tag-horror","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-south","15":"tag-variant","16":"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\/180734","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=180734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}