{"id":28116,"date":"2021-11-27T13:02:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T13:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=28116"},"modified":"2021-11-27T13:02:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T13:02:14","slug":"south-africa-complains-flight-bans-are-punishment-for-it-detecting-omicron-new-covid-19-variantunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=28116","title":{"rendered":"South Africa complains flight bans are \u2018punishment\u2019 for it detecting Omicron, new Covid-19 variantUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostSouth Africa has complained it is being \u201cpunished\u201d for detecting a new Covid-19 variant which the World Health Organization has termed a \u201cvariant of concern\u201d and is more transmissible than the dominant Delta strain.The decision by a host of countries to ban flights from southern Africa following the discovery of the Omicron variant \u201cis akin to punishing South Africa for its advanced genomic sequencing and the ability to detect new variants quicker,\u201d the foreign affairs ministry said in a\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/article\/3157617\/south-africa-complains-flight-bans-are-punishment-it-detecting-omicron-new?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostSouth Africa has complained it is being \u201cpunished\u201d for detecting a new Covid-19 variant which the World Health Organization has termed&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":28117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28116"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}