{"id":104447,"date":"2020-03-29T09:23:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T16:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/in-somalia-coronavirus-goes-from-fairy-tale-to-nightmare"},"modified":"2020-03-29T09:23:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T16:23:11","slug":"in-somalia-coronavirus-goes-from-fairy-tale-to-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/in-somalia-coronavirus-goes-from-fairy-tale-to-nightmare","title":{"rendered":"In Somalia, coronavirus goes from fairy tale to nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-somalia-coronavirus-goes-from-fairy-tale-to-nightmare2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) \u2014 At first, the coronavirus was just a fairy tale, a rumor along the dusty lanes of the displaced persons\u2019 camp that Habiba Ali calls home.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed fantastical: an illness sweeping the world far beyond Somalia\u2019s borders, killing thousands of people and sending some of the richest countries into panic.<\/p>\n<p>Then Somalia\u2019s first virus case was announced on March 16, and one of the world\u2019s most fragile nations staggered even more. Nearly three decades of conflict, extremist attacks, drought, disease and a devastating <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/3bdd3a1db7136d0e0e454f5f1f59c998\">outbreak of locusts<\/a> have taken a vast toll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) \u2014 At first, the coronavirus was just a fairy tale, a rumor along the dusty lanes of the displaced persons\u2019 camp that Habiba Ali calls home. It seemed fantastical: an illness sweeping the world far beyond Somalia\u2019s borders, killing thousands of people and sending some of the richest countries into panic. Then [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}