{"id":42717,"date":"2021-01-22T10:57:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T10:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenya-reports-two-cases-of-new-coronavirus-variant\/"},"modified":"2021-01-22T10:56:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T10:56:35","slug":"kenya-reports-two-cases-of-new-coronavirus-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenya-reports-two-cases-of-new-coronavirus-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya reports two cases of new coronavirus variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Amoth, acting director general of health at the Ministry of Health, did not say where the infected men were tested or if they had been notified.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was picked (up) because of our heightened surveillance system. These two gentlemen have since gone back to their country. At the point of picking them, they were all asymptomatic,&#8221; he told a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Sowetan Live <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Kenya has identified two cases of the new coronavirus variant first seen in South Africa in two men who have since left the country, a senior health ministry official said on Wednesday.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[2980],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-42717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-sowetan-live"],"bylines":[{"id":2980,"name":"Sowetan Live","slug":"sowetan-live","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2980,"name":"Sowetan Live","slug":"sowetan-live","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42717"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=42717"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=42717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}