{"id":7552,"date":"2021-02-25T19:28:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T19:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=7552"},"modified":"2021-02-28T19:32:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T19:32:47","slug":"as-somalias-covid-19-cases-surge-a-variant-is-suspected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2021\/02\/25\/as-somalias-covid-19-cases-surge-a-variant-is-suspected\/","title":{"rendered":"As Somalia\u2019s COVID-19 cases surge, a variant is suspected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU \u2014<\/strong> A resurgence of COVID-19 cases is hitting Somalia hard, straining one of the world\u2019s most fragile health systems. Meanwhile, officials are waiting for test results to show whether a more infectious variant of the coronavirus is spreading.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the lone COVID-19 isolation center in the capital, Mogadishu, 50 people have died in the past two and a half weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The country\u2019s virus infections have jumped from 4,784 to 6,549 this month alone. And yet Somalia, like most African countries, has yet to see a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, though they are expected to start arriving next month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: AP\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/kttc.com\/2021\/02\/25\/as-somalias-covid-19-cases-surge-a-variant-is-suspected\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU \u2014 A resurgence of COVID-19 cases is hitting Somalia hard, straining one of the world\u2019s most fragile health systems. Meanwhile, officials are waiting for test results to show whether a more infectious variant of the coronavirus is spreading. In the lone COVID-19 isolation center in the capital, Mogadishu, 50 people have died in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health-cluster","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7553,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552\/revisions\/7553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}