{"id":916063,"date":"2022-01-13T21:06:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T21:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/13\/coronavirus-good-news-for-everyone\/"},"modified":"2022-01-13T21:06:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T21:06:57","slug":"coronavirus-good-news-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/13\/coronavirus-good-news-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"CORONAVIRUS: Good news for everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><strong>The spread of Coronavirus virus has been declared as a global disaster that claimed millions of lives. The loss which Covid-19 has caused will be felt in many years to come.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"ql-cursor\">\ufeff<\/span><\/strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1ea339561c7143a3b60029cdd73bd9cf\"\/><\/p>\n<p>But the are good news as delivered by Professor Abdool Karim. According to the Professor, the future Covid-19 variants are likely to be \u2018much weaker\u2019 than Omicron. Although future variants could continue to evolve and spread faster, Karim said, they could cause less severe disease. <span style=\"color: rgb(33, 37, 41);\">Karim\u2019s statement comes after National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) acting executive director Prof Adrian Puren confirmed the country is likely to exit the fourth wave in the next week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/71b733d16913415482a15c6cd0e56bae\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(33, 37, 41);\">These are good news for everyone in the country and the globe at large. Economy of many countries has been negatively affected by Covid-19 and if what Karim is saying is true, this would be the perfect time to return to normality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As of today the cumulative number of #COVID19 cases identified in SA is 3 540 891 with 6 762 new cases reported. Today 181 deaths have been reported bringing the total to 92 830 deaths. The cumulative number of recoveries now stand at 3 309 735 with a recovery rate of 93.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, experts say ita time for the South African government to end the State of National Disaster which was declared at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic on March 15 2020. This comes as the Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, is set to announce whether this will lapse or be extended on Saturday, January 15.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/15766fc8b44d4db4849d2e4e490b0898\"\/><\/p>\n<p>President Ramaphosa must allow the State of Disaster to lapse as it is no longer necessary for managing the virus. On the contrary, it is doing SA more harm than good, by undermining our social, economic and democratic recovery.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(33, 37, 41);\">Source:<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(29, 155, 240);\">https:\/\/www.sowetanlive.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/2022-01-13-prof-abdool-karim-says-future-covid-19-variants-are-likely-to-be-much-weaker-than-omicron\/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;s=09<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Mmapula (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAbdool Karim<br \/>\nCoronavirus<br \/>\nCovid-19<br \/>\nKarim<br \/>\nNational Institute for Communicable<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spread of Coronavirus virus has been declared as a global disaster that claimed millions of lives. The loss which Covid-19 has caused will be felt in many years to come. \ufeff But the are good news as delivered by Professor Abdool Karim. According to the Professor, the future Covid-19 variants are likely to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}