{"id":470902,"date":"2021-02-25T07:19:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T05:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=470902"},"modified":"2021-02-25T07:19:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T05:19:51","slug":"south-africa-has-found-4000-covid-19-re-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/470902\/south-africa-has-found-4000-covid-19-re-infections\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa has found 4,000 Covid-19 re-infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 4,000 cases of re-infection with Covid-19 have been found in South Africa, Barry Schoub, the chair of the country\u2019s Ministerial Advisory Committee on Vaccines, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is probably to a large extent due to the variant\u201d of the virus that was first identified in the country, he said on a webinar on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The mutation, known by scientists as B.1.351, was identified in the country last last year and has become the dominant strain in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>With over 1.5 million known coronavirus infections and almost 50,000 deaths, South Africa has been the hardest hit country on the continent.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday the South African government will release the results of a study into the transmissibility of the variant, whether it can cause re-infection and whether it causes more severe disease.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/budget-speech\/470808\/r9-billion-allocated-to-covid-19-vaccine-roll-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">R9 billion allocated to Covid-19 vaccine rollout<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 4,000 cases of re-infection with Covid-19 have been found in South Africa, Barry Schoub, the chair of the country\u2019s Ministerial Advisory Committee on Vaccines, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":461988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-470902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470908,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470902\/revisions\/470908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}