{"id":31122,"date":"2021-04-20T00:50:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T15:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/19\/what-do-we-know-about-the-indian-coronavirus-variant"},"modified":"2021-05-08T00:29:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T15:29:59","slug":"what-do-we-know-about-the-indian-coronavirus-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31122","title":{"rendered":"What do we know about the Indian coronavirus variant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has been added to the UK\u2019s \u2018red list\u2019 for travel, with fears over a new variant influencing the decision<\/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>India has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/19\/coronavirus-india-to-go-on-englands-covid-travel-red-list-on-friday\">put on the UK\u2019s \u201cred list\u201d for travel<\/a> as it battles a devastating rise in infections and new variants of coronavirus that have spread to other countries, including the UK. One of these variants is showing a rapid rise in numbers in England and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/07\/indian-covid-variant-is-variant-of-concern-says-public-health-england\">has now been designated a \u201cvariant of concern\u201d<\/a>. What do we know about the variants?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/19\/what-do-we-know-about-the-indian-coronavirus-variant\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has been added to the UK\u2019s \u2018red list\u2019 for travel, with fears over a new variant influencing the decisionCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia has been put on the UK\u2019s \u201cred list\u201d for travel as it battles a devastating r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":681,"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":[1066,346,62,512,299,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-india","category-medical-research","category-science","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31122","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\/681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31854,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31122\/revisions\/31854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}