{"id":331,"date":"2020-07-17T17:49:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T15:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stilfonteintown.co.za\/?p=331"},"modified":"2020-07-17T18:01:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T16:01:53","slug":"south-africa-endures-coronavirus-crisis-as-health-services-collapse-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stilfonteintown.co.za\/index.php\/2020\/07\/17\/south-africa-endures-coronavirus-crisis-as-health-services-collapse-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa endures coronavirus crisis as health services collapse &#8211; BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"South Africa endures coronavirus crisis as health services collapse  - BBC News\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PkYsjYKxXFU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chronic failures in the health system of South Africa\u2019s Eastern Cape have been exposed by the coronavirus pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Key staff are on strike or sick with Covid-19 and there are reports of unborn babies dying in overcrowded, understaffed wards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A BBC investigation found exhausted doctors and nurses who say the province\u2019s health system has collapsed under the strain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One doctor called it an \u201cepic failure of a deeply corrupt system\u201d. After initially controlling the virus South Africa is experiencing a sharp rise in infections &#8211; currently more than 10,000 new cases a day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huw Edwards presents BBC News at Ten reporting from Andrew Harding in Port Elizabeth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chronic failures in the health system of South Africa\u2019s Eastern Cape have been exposed by the coronavirus pandemic. Key staff are on strike or sick with Covid-19 and there are reports of unborn babies dying in overcrowded, understaffed wards. A BBC investigation found exhausted doctors and nurses who say the province\u2019s health system has collapsed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"15":{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/stilfonteintown.co.za\/index.php\/category\/news\/"}},"tags_names":[],"comments_number":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stilfonteintown.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stilfonteintown.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stilfonteintown.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stilfonteintown.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stilfonteintown.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stilfonteintown.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/stilfonteintown.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stilfonteintown.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stilfonteintown.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stilfonteintown.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}