{"id":80414,"date":"2020-09-28T10:34:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T10:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediahack.co.za\/?p=80414"},"modified":"2025-11-17T17:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:44:13","slug":"how-covid-19-took-hold-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/2020\/09\/28\/how-covid-19-took-hold-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"How Covid-19 took hold in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">South Africa is one of the top 10 countries worst affected by Covid-19. We used an interactive timeline to take you through South Africa\u2019s first wave of the pandemic, from our country\u2019s patient zero to the point where restrictions started easing up.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We used data from the Department of Health, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases and more to visualise the spread and log superspreader events. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bhekisisa.org\/stories\/coronavirus\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">View the full project here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This project was produced for the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bhekisisa.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa is one of the top 10 countries worst affected by Covid-19. We used an interactive timeline to take you through South Africa\u2019s first wave of the pandemic, from our country\u2019s patient zero to the point where restrictions started easing up.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,446,1387],"tags":[],"newsletter-post":[],"site":[],"class_list":["post-80414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","category-the-outlier"],"acf":{"big_number":null,"big_number_caption":null,"big_number_link":null,"big_number_background":null,"big_number_text_colour":null,"big_number_icon":null,"big_number_wide":null,"featured_chart":null,"flourish_chart_id":null,"flourish_sub_title":null,"flourish_chart_width":null,"is_newsletter_post":null,"post_style":null,"show_on_front":null,"link_through":null,"chart_url":null,"background_colour":null,"text_colour":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86666,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80414\/revisions\/86666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80414"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter-post?post=80414"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=80414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}