{"id":28124,"date":"2023-01-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/?p=28124"},"modified":"2023-01-16T11:50:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T11:50:33","slug":"new-covid-variant-emerging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2023\/01\/19\/new-covid-variant-emerging\/","title":{"rendered":"New Covid variant emerging?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s a new Covid variant affecting increasing numbers of people in the US &#8211; what could it mean for UK public health? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8216;kraken&#8217; variant is a subvariant of the omicron variant of Covid 19 &#8211; and it looks like it is even more infectious. This link has more details. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-kraken-covid-variant-xbb-1-5-is-rising-quickly-in-the-us-heres-what-it-could-mean-for-the-uk-197265?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20January%2012%202023%20-%202514125229&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20January%2012%202023%20-%202514125229+CID_8f4b2a96b82c50c6d40ae78a4f78fa61&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&amp;utm_term=The%20kraken%20COVID%20variant%20XBB15%20is%20rising%20quickly%20in%20the%20US%20%20heres%20what%20it%20could%20mean%20for%20the%20UK\">The &#8216;kraken&#8217; COVID variant XBB.1.5 is rising quickly in the US \u2013 here&#8217;s what it could mean for the UK (theconversation.com)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new Covid variant affecting increasing numbers of people in the US &#8211; what could it mean for UK public health? The &#8216;kraken&#8217; variant is a subvariant of the omicron variant of Covid 19 &#8211; and it looks like it is even more infectious. This link has more details. The &#8216;kraken&#8217; COVID variant XBB.1.5 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2023\/01\/19\/new-covid-variant-emerging\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Covid variant emerging?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[6698,4778,8503],"class_list":["post-28124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-covid","tag-public-health","tag-subvariant"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28125,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28124\/revisions\/28125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}