{"id":19549,"date":"2026-05-19T14:39:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=19549"},"modified":"2026-05-19T14:41:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:41:33","slug":"mbalo-brief-may2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=19549","title":{"rendered":"Mbalo Brief May2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how quickly a virus can spread across borders and disrupt lives around the world. Thus, the Department of Health in South Africa is on high alert following the discovery of a rare but deadly case of hantavirus in the country. This is after three confirmed passenger deaths on a cruise ship from the hantavirus, with two of the deaths being linked to South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/publications\/MbaloBrief\/MbaloBriefMay2026.pdf\">Donload Mbalo Brief &#8211; May 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how quickly a virus can spread across borders and disrupt lives around the world. Thus, the Department of Health in South Africa is on high alert following the discovery of a rare but deadly case of hantavirus in the country. This is after three confirmed passenger deaths on a cruise&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=19549\" class=\"btn btn-mini btn-info pull-right\" style=\"margin:10px 30px;\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mbalo-brief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19552,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19549\/revisions\/19552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}