{"id":210281,"date":"2021-12-01T17:08:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T15:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-news-omicron-variant-was-in-nigeria-weeks-before-south-africa-raised-alarm\/"},"modified":"2021-12-01T17:08:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T15:08:41","slug":"sa-news-omicron-variant-was-in-nigeria-weeks-before-south-africa-raised-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-news-omicron-variant-was-in-nigeria-weeks-before-south-africa-raised-alarm\/","title":{"rendered":"SA News: Omicron variant was in Nigeria weeks before South Africa raised alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=64DF8F9A96D04450AD03EA1C9B699D5A&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.standard.co.uk%2fnews%2fworld%2fomicron-variant-nigeria-south-africa-b969415.html%3fitm_source%3dInternal%26itm_channel%3dhomepage_banner%26itm_campaign%3dbreaking-news-ticker%26itm_content%3d5&#038;c=11650957636271282641&#038;mkt=en-gb\">Omicron variant was in Nigeria weeks before South Africa raised alarm<\/a>: Nigeria in October &#8211; before the variant was identified and disclosed to the world last week. Meanwhile Dutch health officials said the new variant had already reached the Netherlands a week before two &#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=64DF8F9A96D04450AD03EA1C9B699D5A&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.standard.co.uk%2fnews%2fworld%2fomicron-variant-nigeria-south-africa-b969415.html%3fitm_source%3dInternal%26itm_channel%3dhomepage_banner%26itm_campaign%3dbreaking-news-ticker%26itm_content%3d5&#038;c=11650957636271282641&#038;mkt=en-gb\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omicron variant was in Nigeria weeks before South Africa raised alarm: Nigeria in October &#8211; before the variant was identified and disclosed to the world last week. Meanwhile Dutch health officials said the new variant had already reached the Netherlands a week before two &#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":[428,3559,5274,830,236,42567,9132,3576,39893,8516],"class_list":{"0":"post-210281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-alarm","9":"tag-before","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-nigeria","12":"tag-omicron","13":"tag-raised","14":"tag-south","15":"tag-variant","16":"tag-weeks","17":"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\/210281","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=210281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}