{"id":39409,"date":"2021-12-02T12:54:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T03:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/02\/omicron-variant-fuelling-exponential-rise-in-covid-cases-say-south-africa-officials"},"modified":"2021-12-02T12:54:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T03:54:02","slug":"omicron-variant-fuelling-exponential-rise-in-covid-cases-say-south-africa-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39409","title":{"rendered":"Omicron variant fuelling \u2018exponential\u2019 rise in Covid cases, say South Africa officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly three-quarters of virus genomes sequenced last month were of new variant, say South African health officials<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Omicron variant has fuelled a \u201cworrying\u201d surge in coronavirus cases in South Africa and is rapidly becoming the dominant strain, local health officials have said, as more countries including the US detected their first cases of the new strain.<\/p>\n<p>The United Arab Emirates and South Korea \u2013 which is already battling a worsening outbreak and record daily infections \u2013 also confirmed cases of the Omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/02\/omicron-variant-fuelling-exponential-rise-in-covid-cases-say-south-africa-officials\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly three-quarters of virus genomes sequenced last month were of new variant, say South African health officialsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Omicron variant has fuelled a \u201cworrying\u201d surge in coronavirus cases in So&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2708,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,532,222,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-south-africa","category-south-korea","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39423,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39409\/revisions\/39423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}