{"id":31855,"date":"2021-05-07T22:19:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T13:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/07\/indian-covid-variant-is-variant-of-concern-says-public-health-england"},"modified":"2021-05-07T22:19:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T13:19:01","slug":"indian-covid-variant-is-of-concern-says-public-health-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31855","title":{"rendered":"Indian Covid variant is \u2018of concern\u2019, says Public Health England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Figures show cases of B.1.617.2 on the rise, with scientists worried it may be more transmissible<\/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 first detected in India has been designated a \u201cvariant of concern\u201d by England\u2019s public health body, as consternation about its spread within communities grows.<\/p>\n<p>The variant, called B.1.617.2 is one of three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/19\/what-do-we-know-about-the-indian-coronavirus-variant\">closely related variants that were first detected in India<\/a> and have since been found in the UK, with the others known as B.1.617.1 and B.1.617.3.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/07\/indian-covid-variant-is-variant-of-concern-says-public-health-england\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figures show cases of B.1.617.2 on the rise, with scientists worried it may be more transmissibleCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA coronavirus variant first detected in India has been designated a \u201cvariant of concern\u201d by Eng&#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":[1066,1805,62,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-england","category-india","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\/31855","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=31855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31856,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31855\/revisions\/31856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}