{"id":209843,"date":"2021-11-27T08:08:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T06:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-news-new-covid-19-variant-emerges-with-old-one-driving-record-cases-in-maine\/"},"modified":"2021-11-27T08:08:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T06:08:18","slug":"sa-news-new-covid-19-variant-emerges-with-old-one-driving-record-cases-in-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-news-new-covid-19-variant-emerges-with-old-one-driving-record-cases-in-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"SA News: New COVID-19 variant emerges with old one driving record cases in Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=4224DF1F553A432A912A3A4209662045&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fbangordailynews.com%2f2021%2f11%2f27%2fnews%2fnew-covid-19-variant-emerges-with-old-one-driving-record-cases-in-maine-joam40zk0w%2f&#038;c=10037849453775623786&#038;mkt=en-gb\">New COVID-19 variant emerges with old one driving record cases in Maine<\/a>: The World Health Organization designated the B.1.1.529 variant, now known as the omicron strain, a variant of concern on Friday after health officials in South Africa flagged it amid a rapid rise &#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=4224DF1F553A432A912A3A4209662045&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fbangordailynews.com%2f2021%2f11%2f27%2fnews%2fnew-covid-19-variant-emerges-with-old-one-driving-record-cases-in-maine-joam40zk0w%2f&#038;c=10037849453775623786&#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=4224DF1F553A432A912A3A4209662045&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.bbc.com%2fpidgin%2fworld-59441919&#038;c=5321301488824198010&#038;mkt=en-gb\">US travel ban: South Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and oda flights go dey temporarily blocked from US sake of new coronavirus variant<\/a>: South Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and oda flights go dey temporarily blocked from US sake of new coronavirus variant US go restrict travel from South Africa and seven oda southern African kontries to &#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=4224DF1F553A432A912A3A4209662045&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.bbc.com%2fpidgin%2fworld-59441919&#038;c=5321301488824198010&#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=4224DF1F553A432A912A3A4209662045&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.huffpost.com%2fentry%2fwill-flight-restrictions-help-prevent-new-covid-19-variant-spread_n_61a12478e4b0451e550734ff&#038;c=15708929445894627595&#038;mkt=en-gb\">Will Flight Restrictions Help Prevent New COVID-19 Variant Spread?<\/a>: A new coronavirus variant identified in South Africa is leading to a new round of travel restrictions just as many had finally begun to ease. The risks of the variant, called omicron, are largely &#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=4224DF1F553A432A912A3A4209662045&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.huffpost.com%2fentry%2fwill-flight-restrictions-help-prevent-new-covid-19-variant-spread_n_61a12478e4b0451e550734ff&#038;c=15708929445894627595&#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=4224DF1F553A432A912A3A4209662045&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.fxempire.com%2fnews%2farticle%2fdelta-united-not-revising-south-africa-flights-amid-variant-concerns-822445&#038;c=16020630877438231103&#038;mkt=en-gb\">Delta, United not revising South Africa flights amid variant concerns<\/a>: Delta Air Lines and United Airlines said on Friday they do not plan any changes to their South Africa-U.S. routes after the White House said it plans to impose new travel curbs on southern Africa &#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=4224DF1F553A432A912A3A4209662045&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.fxempire.com%2fnews%2farticle%2fdelta-united-not-revising-south-africa-flights-amid-variant-concerns-822445&#038;c=16020630877438231103&#038;mkt=en-gb\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New COVID-19 variant emerges with old one driving record cases in Maine: The World Health Organization designated the B.1.1.529 variant, now known as the omicron strain, a variant of concern on Friday after health officials in South Africa flagged it amid a rapid rise &#8230; Source: &#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews US travel ban: South Africa, [&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":[4785,37606,3575,8376,19911,830,2468,39893],"class_list":{"0":"post-209843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-cases","8":"tag-covid19","9":"tag-driving","10":"tag-emerges","11":"tag-maine","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-record","14":"tag-variant","15":"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\/209843","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=209843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}