{"id":190736,"date":"2021-06-01T19:08:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T17:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-news-who-renames-covid-19-strains-to-remove-association-with-countries\/"},"modified":"2021-06-01T19:08:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T17:08:19","slug":"sa-news-who-renames-covid-19-strains-to-remove-association-with-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-news-who-renames-covid-19-strains-to-remove-association-with-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"SA News: WHO renames Covid-19 strains to remove association with countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=153123943ED745D5BB8BD780EF0125DF&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.africanews.com%2f2021%2f06%2f01%2fwho-renames-covid-19-strains-to-remove-association-with-countries%2f&#038;c=15270837947767967955&#038;mkt=en-gb\">WHO renames Covid-19 strains to remove association with countries<\/a>: The United Kingdom variant, called by scientists B.1.1.7, will now be Alpha. B.1.351, the South Africa variant, will now be Beta and the B.1.617.2 variant discovered in India will now be known as Delt &#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=153123943ED745D5BB8BD780EF0125DF&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.africanews.com%2f2021%2f06%2f01%2fwho-renames-covid-19-strains-to-remove-association-with-countries%2f&#038;c=15270837947767967955&#038;mkt=en-gb\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO renames Covid-19 strains to remove association with countries: The United Kingdom variant, called by scientists B.1.1.7, will now be Alpha. B.1.351, the South Africa variant, will now be Beta and the B.1.617.2 variant discovered in India will now be known as Delt &#8230; Source: &#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/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":[3577,2345,37606,830,19470,41428,39802],"class_list":{"0":"post-190736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-association","8":"tag-countries","9":"tag-covid19","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-remove","12":"tag-renames","13":"tag-strains","14":"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\/190736","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=190736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}