{"id":131249,"date":"2021-11-25T22:23:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T06:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/protean-south-african-virus-mutation-raises-alarms-in-israel"},"modified":"2021-11-25T22:23:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T06:23:54","slug":"protean-south-african-virus-mutation-raises-alarms-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/protean-south-african-virus-mutation-raises-alarms-in-israel","title":{"rendered":"Protean South African virus mutation raises alarms in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/protean-south-african-virus-mutation-raises-alarms-in-israel2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Health official are reportedly calling for steps to be taken to keep a potentially worrying new variant of the coronavirus out of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists in South Africa revealed Thursday that they had detected a new COVID-19 variant with \u201ca very high number of mutations,\u201d blamed for an \u201cexponential\u201d surge in infections there.<\/p>\n<p>The number of daily infections in Africa\u2019s hardest-hit country has increased tenfold since the start of the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health official are reportedly calling for steps to be taken to keep a potentially worrying new variant of the coronavirus out of the country. Scientists in South Africa revealed Thursday that they had detected a new COVID-19 variant with \u201ca very high number of mutations,\u201d blamed for an \u201cexponential\u201d surge in infections there. The number [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131249","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}