{"id":30979,"date":"2021-04-16T04:09:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T19:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/15\/covid-variant-first-detected-india-found-uk"},"modified":"2021-04-16T04:09:59","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T19:09:59","slug":"covid-variant-first-detected-in-india-is-found-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30979","title":{"rendered":"Covid variant first detected in India is found in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy-seven cases of B.1.617, which has potentially worrying mutations, reported in England and Scotland<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A coronavirus variant with potentially worrying mutations that was first detected in India has been found in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>In total, 77 cases of the variant, known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/14\/a-tsunami-of-cases-desperation-as-covid-second-wave-batters-india\">B.1.617<\/a>, have been recorded in the UK up to 14 April, according to the latest update from Public Health England (PHE), released on Thursday. Of these, 73 were recorded in England and four in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/15\/covid-variant-first-detected-india-found-uk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy-seven cases of B.1.617, which has potentially worrying mutations, reported in England and ScotlandCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA coronavirus variant with potentially worrying mutations that was first detected in I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,1805,62,561,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-england","category-india","category-scotland","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30980,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30979\/revisions\/30980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}