{"id":27177,"date":"2021-02-11T09:41:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T09:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=27177"},"modified":"2021-02-11T09:41:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T09:41:03","slug":"kent-covid-variant-likely-to-sweep-globe-and-become-worlds-dominant-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/02\/11\/kent-covid-variant-likely-to-sweep-globe-and-become-worlds-dominant-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Covid variant &#8216;likely to sweep globe&#8217; and become world&#8217;s dominant strain"},"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-27128\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/bristol-variant-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/bristol-variant-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/bristol-variant-500x577.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/bristol-variant-360x416.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/bristol-variant.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new and more infectious variant of Covid-19 first found in Kent will likely become the world&#8217;s dominant strain, the director of the UK&#8217;s genetic surveillance programme warned. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/coronavirus\/kent-covid-variant-likely-to-sweep-globe-and-become-world-s-dominant-strain\/ar-BB1dAJE3?ocid=msedgntp\">Read\u00a0 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>The new and more infectious variant of Covid-19 first found in Kent will likely become the world&#8217;s dominant strain, the director of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27177","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\/2021\/02\/bristol-variant.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27177","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=27177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27178,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27177\/revisions\/27178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}