{"id":39257,"date":"2022-12-02T15:54:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T15:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=39257"},"modified":"2022-12-02T15:54:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T15:54:23","slug":"bq1-omicron-fears-new-covid-variant-in-uk-could-spark-surge-in-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/12\/02\/bq1-omicron-fears-new-covid-variant-in-uk-could-spark-surge-in-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"BQ1 Omicron: Fears new Covid variant in UK could spark surge in cases"},"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-33852\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/omicron-variant-BA2-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/omicron-variant-BA2-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/omicron-variant-BA2-770x417.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/omicron-variant-BA2-360x195.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/omicron-variant-BA2.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/covid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Covid<\/a>\u00a0variant in the\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">UK<\/a>\u00a0could fuel a surge in cases and put pressure on the\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/nhs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">NHS<\/a>, health bosses have warned. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/newslondon\/bq1-omicron-fears-new-covid-variant-in-uk-could-spark-surge-in-cases\/ar-AA14P61I?ocid=msedgntp&amp;cvid=4d02df0148d6454082d8e472b12d4280\">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>A new\u00a0Covid\u00a0variant in the\u00a0UK\u00a0could fuel a surge in cases and put pressure on the\u00a0NHS, health bosses have warned. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39257","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\/12\/Omicron-covid-variant.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39257","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=39257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39258,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39257\/revisions\/39258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}