{"id":32878,"date":"2021-11-30T13:49:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T13:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=32878"},"modified":"2021-11-30T13:49:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T13:49:11","slug":"omicron-covid-variant-was-in-europe-before-south-african-scientists-detected-and-flagged-it-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/11\/30\/omicron-covid-variant-was-in-europe-before-south-african-scientists-detected-and-flagged-it-to-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Omicron COVID variant was in Europe before South African scientists detected and flagged it to the world"},"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-32879\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Omicron-variant-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Omicron-variant-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Omicron-variant-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Omicron-variant-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Omicron-variant-360x202.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Omicron-variant.jpg 795w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dutch health authorities announced on Tuesday that they found the new\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/omicron-covid-variant-whats-known\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Omicron variant<\/a><\/span>\u00a0of the\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/feature\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">coronavirus<\/a><\/span> in cases dating back as long as 11 days, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/omicron-variant-covid-in-europe-netherlands-before-alert-raised\/\">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>Dutch health authorities announced on Tuesday that they found the new\u00a0Omicron variant\u00a0of the\u00a0coronavirus in cases dating back as long as 11 days,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32878","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\/11\/Omicron-variant.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32878","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=32878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32880,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32878\/revisions\/32880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}