{"id":29740,"date":"2021-06-17T07:13:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T07:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=29740"},"modified":"2021-06-17T07:13:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T07:13:06","slug":"britains-daily-covid-cases-hit-9000-for-the-first-time-since-february-as-cases-spike-by-a-fifth-in-a-week-and-hospitalisations-soar-by-another-40-amid-the-rapid-spread-of-indian-variant-but-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/06\/17\/britains-daily-covid-cases-hit-9000-for-the-first-time-since-february-as-cases-spike-by-a-fifth-in-a-week-and-hospitalisations-soar-by-another-40-amid-the-rapid-spread-of-indian-variant-but-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s daily Covid cases hit 9,000 for the first time since February as cases spike by a fifth in a week and hospitalisations soar by another 40% amid the rapid spread of Indian variant &#8211; but deaths stay flat"},"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-28744\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/india-mutant-covid-180x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/india-mutant-covid-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/india-mutant-covid-360x599.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/india-mutant-covid.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Britain today recorded 9,000 daily Covid cases for the first time since February as the Indian variant continues to spread widely across the country.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9693401\/Britains-daily-Covid-cases-hit-9-000-time-February.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>Britain today recorded 9,000 daily Covid cases for the first time since February as the Indian variant continues to spread widely across&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29740","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\/04\/india-mutant-covid.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29740","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=29740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29741,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29740\/revisions\/29741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}