The article is from July but when it was first published it was talking about the Delta variant, not the new South African variant. Here check for yourself:
It looks like they kept updating the article with new information but never changed the publication date. It's certainly poor practice but doesn't prove anything beyond that.
The article is from July but when it was first published it was talking about the Delta variant, not the new South African variant. Here check for yourself:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210712122356/https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/how-scientists-detect-new-covid-19-variants/
It looks like they kept updating the article with new information but never changed the publication date. It's certainly poor practice but doesn't prove anything beyond that.