{"id":131235,"date":"2021-11-25T18:27:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T02:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/new-covid-19-variant-discovered-in-south-africa-dw-news"},"modified":"2021-11-25T18:27:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T02:27:49","slug":"new-covid-19-variant-discovered-in-south-africa-dw-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/new-covid-19-variant-discovered-in-south-africa-dw-news","title":{"rendered":"New COVID-19 variant discovered in South Africa | DW News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hm-WzJ0KR0M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists in South Africa are warning of a new strain of COVID-19. The variant \u2014 which is yet to be named \u2014 appears to have a high number of mutations. That is of concern, because there\u2019s a possibility it could be able to evade our immune response and be even more transmissible. South Africa has called for an emergency meeting of the World Health Organization to discuss this new variant.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/\">http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/<\/a><br \/> Follow DW on social media:<br \/> \u25baFacebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deutschewellenews\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deutschewellenews\/<\/a><br \/> \u25baTwitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwnews\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwnews<\/a>.<br \/> \u25baInstagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dwnews\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dwnews<\/a>.<br \/> F\u00fcr Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwdeutsch\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwdeutsch<\/a>.<br \/> #Variant #B.1.1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in South Africa are warning of a new strain of COVID-19. The variant \u2014 which is yet to be named \u2014 appears to have a high number of mutations. That is of concern, because there\u2019s a possibility it could be able to evade our immune response and be even more transmissible. South Africa has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131235","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}