{"id":17322,"date":"2021-05-04T18:03:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T16:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2021\/05\/04\/covid-19-south-african-variant-takes-devastating-toll-on-madagascar\/"},"modified":"2021-05-04T18:03:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T16:03:11","slug":"covid-19-south-african-variant-takes-devastating-toll-on-madagascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2021\/05\/04\/covid-19-south-african-variant-takes-devastating-toll-on-madagascar\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: South African variant takes devastating toll on Madagascar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Madagascar is facing a second deadly wave of Covid-19, as the South African variant spreads across the island nation.\u00a0In the past month, almost\u00a013,000 infections\u00a0and 250 deaths have been recorded, according to official figures that likely represent a vast underestimate. The situation is spiralling out of control and has been worsened by shortages of oxygen and medicine, with hospitals overwhelmed. Meanwhile, the authorities are downplaying the gravity of the situation. The first\u00a0vaccines are\u00a0due to arrive at the end of the week in Madagascar.\u00a0Our correspondent Ga\u00eblle Borgia\u00a0reports.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madagascar is facing a second deadly wave of Covid-19, as the South African variant spreads across the island nation.\u00a0In the past month, almost\u00a013,000 infections\u00a0and 250 deaths have been recorded, according to official figures that likely represent a vast underestimate. The situation is spiralling out of control and has been worsened by shortages of oxygen and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-17322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}