{"id":14961,"date":"2020-04-27T12:47:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T09:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=14961"},"modified":"2020-04-27T12:47:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T09:47:56","slug":"cuban-doctors-land-in-south-africa-to-fight-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/27\/cuban-doctors-land-in-south-africa-to-fight-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban Doctors Land In South Africa To Fight COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A team of Cuban medics have arrived in South Africa to help the country limit the spread of coronavirus, South Africa&#8217;s department of health has tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Cuban doctors are to be deployed to different provinces by South Africa&#8217;s Department of Health, Cuba&#8217;s ambassador Rodolfo Ben\u00edtez Verson has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two countries have close ties as Cuba was instrumental in the fight against white-minority rule in South Africa, which did not end until 1994 when anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela was elected president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South Africa, with more than 4,500 Covid-19 cases, is one of the worst-hit African countries, but it appears to have been successful in slowing the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Cuban medics have arrived in South Africa to help the country limit the spread of coronavirus, South Africa&#8217;s department of health has tweeted. The Cuban doctors are to be deployed to different provinces by South Africa&#8217;s Department of Health, Cuba&#8217;s ambassador Rodolfo Ben\u00edtez Verson has said. The two countries have close ties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":14962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14963,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14961\/revisions\/14963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}