{"id":210606,"date":"2021-12-05T06:34:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T04:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/south-africas-new-covid-cases-double-in-1-day-amid-omicron\/"},"modified":"2021-12-05T06:34:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T04:34:56","slug":"south-africas-new-covid-cases-double-in-1-day-amid-omicron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/south-africas-new-covid-cases-double-in-1-day-amid-omicron\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa\u2019s new COVID cases double in 1 day amid omicron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/myjhb.co.za\/south-africas-new-covid-cases-double-in-1-day-amid-omicron\/\">South Africa\u2019s new COVID cases double in 1 day amid omicron<\/a>: <input type=\"hidden\" class=\"simple-love-fix\" data-id=\"5007\" value=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa in the news:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>South Africa&#8217;s new COVID cases double in 1 day amid omicron<\/strong>: South Africa&#8217;s new cases of COVID-19 nearly doubled in a day, authorities reported Wednesday, signaling a dramatic surge in the country where scientists detected the omicron variant last week. 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It was named by miners who worked the gold mines in Johannesburg, South Africa and has an estimated population of less than 2,000.<\/p>\n<p><small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/myjhb.co.za\/south-africas-new-covid-cases-double-in-1-day-amid-omicron\/\">MyJHB<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/myjhb.co.za\" rel=\"noopener\">MyJHB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Join the fun:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/add-your-event\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Add Your event<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mypr.co.za\/submit\" rel=\"noopener\">Submit a Press Release<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/directory\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Add your listing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s new COVID cases double in 1 day amid omicron: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa in the news: South Africa&#8217;s new COVID cases double in 1 day amid omicron: South Africa&#8217;s new cases of COVID-19 nearly doubled in a day, authorities reported Wednesday, signaling a dramatic surge in the country where scientists detected the omicron [&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":[3332],"tags":[4635,1632,4785,37757,3872,42567,3576],"class_list":{"0":"post-210606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-johannesburg-south-africa","7":"tag-africas","8":"tag-amid","9":"tag-cases","10":"tag-covid","11":"tag-double","12":"tag-omicron","13":"tag-south","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\/210606","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=210606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}