{"id":185045,"date":"2024-11-21T12:02:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T10:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/namibia-on-red-alert-as-angola-confirms-mpox-case\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T12:02:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T10:02:22","slug":"namibia-on-red-alert-as-angola-confirms-mpox-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/namibia-on-red-alert-as-angola-confirms-mpox-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia On Red Alert As Angola Confirms Mpox Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\"><em>Namibia is on high alert after neighbouring Angola confirmed a case of the infectious disease, mpox, on Wednesday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Health executive director Ben Nangombe told The Namibian the case is of a Congolese national who is currently isolated in a specialised health facility in Luanda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">In a statement issued on Wednesday, Nangombe reassured the public that Namibia remains vigilant, with no confirmed mpox cases recorded within its borders to date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">&#8220;As of 18 November, Namibia has collectively tested 38&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411210209.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia is on high alert after neighbouring Angola confirmed a case of the infectious disease, mpox, on Wednesday. Health executive director Ben Nangombe told The Namibian the case is of a Congolese national who is currently isolated in a specialised health facility in Luanda. In a statement issued on Wednesday, Nangombe reassured the public that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":185046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,13490,3941,4263,6683,6824,49242,4706,257,10722,254],"class_list":["post-185045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alert","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-case","tag-confirms","tag-mpox","tag-namibia","tag-news","tag-red","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}