{"id":33101,"date":"2021-06-14T23:03:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T14:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/14\/delta-variant-of-covid-spreading-rapidly-and-detected-in-74-countries"},"modified":"2021-06-14T23:03:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T14:03:23","slug":"delta-variant-of-covid-spreading-rapidly-and-detected-in-74-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33101","title":{"rendered":"Delta variant of Covid spreading rapidly and detected in 74 countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns over impact on poorer countries, while richer governments try different containment measures<\/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>The Delta variant of Covid-19, first identified in India, has been detected in 74 countries and continues to spread rapidly amid fears that it is poised to become the dominant strain worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Outbreaks of the Delta variant have been confirmed in China, the US, Africa, Scandinavia and the Pacific. Scientists report that it appears to be more transmissible, as well as causing more serious illness.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/14\/delta-variant-of-covid-spreading-rapidly-and-detected-in-74-countries\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns over impact on poorer countries, while richer governments try different containment measuresCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Delta variant of Covid-19, first identified in India, has been detected in 74 countries&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"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":[401,41,43,50,1066,1052,346,62,156,914,61,52,47,42,1663],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-democratic-republic-of-the-congo","category-health","category-india","category-indonesia","category-infectious-diseases","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-us-news","category-world-news","category-zimbabwe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33101","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\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33107,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33101\/revisions\/33107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}