{"id":27304,"date":"2021-02-14T21:57:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T21:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=27304"},"modified":"2021-02-14T21:57:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T21:57:06","slug":"kent-covid-variant-is-up-to-30-more-deadly-and-70-more-infectious-than-the-original-strain-scientists-say-amid-fears-it-is-already-in-more-than-50-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/02\/14\/kent-covid-variant-is-up-to-30-more-deadly-and-70-more-infectious-than-the-original-strain-scientists-say-amid-fears-it-is-already-in-more-than-50-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Covid variant is up to 30% more deadly and 70% more infectious than the original strain, scientists say amid fears it is already in more than 50 countries"},"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-full wp-image-23893\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/covid-green.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"132\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Kent coronavirus variant is up to 70 per cent more infectious and 30 per cent more deadly than the original strain, scientists fear. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9259441\/Kent-Covid-variant-30-deadly-70-infectious-original-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>The Kent coronavirus variant is up to 70 per cent more infectious and 30 per cent more deadly than the original strain,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27304","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\/covid-green.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27304","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=27304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27305,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27304\/revisions\/27305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}