{"id":32846,"date":"2021-11-27T15:49:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T15:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=32846"},"modified":"2021-11-27T15:49:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T15:49:21","slug":"christmas-could-be-saved-new-variant-lifeline-as-test-can-detect-deadly-strain-in-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/11\/27\/christmas-could-be-saved-new-variant-lifeline-as-test-can-detect-deadly-strain-in-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas could be saved! New variant lifeline as test can detect deadly strain in minutes"},"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-26924\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mutating-strain-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mutating-strain-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mutating-strain-500x353.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mutating-strain-360x254.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mutating-strain.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new strain, known as Omicron, sparked widespread panic when scientists discovered it had a total of 50 mutations from the original\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-id=\"114\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:114,&quot;p&quot;:49,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;partnerLink&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:24,&quot;o&quot;:55}\">COVID-19<\/a> identified in Wuhan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/medical\/christmas-could-be-saved-new-variant-lifeline-as-test-can-detect-deadly-strain-in-minutes\/ar-AARbNjp?ocid=msedgntp\">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 new strain, known as Omicron, sparked widespread panic when scientists discovered it had a total of 50 mutations from the original\u00a0COVID-19&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32846","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\/09\/corona-mutation.gif","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32846","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=32846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32847,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32846\/revisions\/32847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}