{"id":33976,"date":"2022-01-29T22:54:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T22:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=33976"},"modified":"2022-01-29T22:54:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T22:54:09","slug":"new-covid-variant-ba-2-is-1-5-times-more-infectious-than-original-omicron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/01\/29\/new-covid-variant-ba-2-is-1-5-times-more-infectious-than-original-omicron\/","title":{"rendered":"New Covid variant BA.2 is 1.5 times more infectious than original Omicron"},"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>The BA.2 sub-variant of\u00a0<a id=\"mol-fadac2a0-8120-11ec-aa1a-9f277c1b71e1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/omicron-variant\/index.html\">Omicron<\/a> is 1.5 more infectious than the current dominant strain in the UK, scientist have claimed.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10455175\/New-Covid-variant-BA-2-1-5-times-infectious-Omicron.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 BA.2 sub-variant of\u00a0Omicron is 1.5 more infectious than the current dominant strain in the UK, scientist have claimed. Read More<\/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-33976","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\/33976","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=33976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33977,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33976\/revisions\/33977"}],"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=33976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}