{"id":26217,"date":"2020-12-29T17:53:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T17:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=26217"},"modified":"2020-12-29T17:53:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T17:53:05","slug":"italian-variant-of-covid-19-similar-to-uk-strain-was-already-spreading-in-august-and-could-be-a-precursor-to-the-english-one-top-virologist-says-as-british-mutant-reaches-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2020\/12\/29\/italian-variant-of-covid-19-similar-to-uk-strain-was-already-spreading-in-august-and-could-be-a-precursor-to-the-english-one-top-virologist-says-as-british-mutant-reaches-india\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Italian variant&#8217; of Covid-19 similar to UK strain was already spreading in August and could be a &#8216;precursor&#8217; to the English one, top virologist says as British mutant reaches India"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24073\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/corona-covid-19-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/corona-covid-19-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/corona-covid-19-770x404.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/corona-covid-19-500x263.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/corona-covid-19.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A strain of the\u00a0<a id=\"mol-877687a0-49c1-11eb-976e-c3ff9096e139\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/coronavirus\/index.html\">coronavirus<\/a>\u00a0very similar to the UK mutation was already circulating in\u00a0<a id=\"mol-87788370-49c1-11eb-976e-c3ff9096e139\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/italy\/index.html\">Italy<\/a> as early as August, a top virologist has said.\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9095233\/Italy-finds-variant-Covid-19-similar-English-strain.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A strain of the\u00a0coronavirus\u00a0very similar to the UK mutation was already circulating in\u00a0Italy as early as August, a top virologist has said.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-covid-19"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/corona-covid-19.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26218,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26217\/revisions\/26218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}