{"id":5391,"date":"2021-07-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disabilityconnect.co.za\/?p=5391"},"modified":"2021-07-21T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T06:00:00","slug":"disruptions-to-life-and-health-caused-by-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/21\/disruptions-to-life-and-health-caused-by-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"disruptions to life and health caused by the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source and image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2021-06-20-people-living-with-disabilities-struggle-to-overcome-severe-disruptions-to-life-and-health-caused-by-the-pandemic\/\">Daily Maverick<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much has been written about how the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing issues and shown up crises within societies globally \u2014 hunger, poverty, access to healthcare and education to name just a few.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The constant fear and anxiety around potential exposure to the virus and the isolation brought about by physical distancing has also led to increased mental health issues in the general population with research proving that marginalised and disabled communities are particularly affected<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2021-06-20-people-living-with-disabilities-struggle-to-overcome-severe-disruptions-to-life-and-health-caused-by-the-pandemic\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source and image: Daily Maverick Much has been written about how the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing issues and shown up crises within societies globally \u2014 hunger, poverty, access to healthcare and education to name just a few.&nbsp; The constant fear and anxiety around potential exposure to the virus and the isolation brought about by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-focus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}