{"id":40505,"date":"2023-01-04T11:16:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T11:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=40505"},"modified":"2023-01-04T11:16:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T11:16:30","slug":"kraken-covid-variant-xbb-1-5-already-makes-up-half-of-cases-in-worst-hit-places-so-has-it-reached-your-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/01\/04\/kraken-covid-variant-xbb-1-5-already-makes-up-half-of-cases-in-worst-hit-places-so-has-it-reached-your-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Kraken&#8217; Covid variant XBB 1.5 already makes up HALF of cases in worst-hit places&#8230; so has it reached YOUR area?"},"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-32842\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/omicron-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/omicron-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/omicron-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/omicron-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/omicron-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/omicron-360x203.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/omicron.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new\u00a0<a id=\"mol-d1412000-8b89-11ed-91c2-3dca4a9e8dd0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/omicron-variant\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Omicron<\/a> subvariant that is starting to sweep the UK is behind up to half of all Covid cases in the worst-hit regions, surveillance data suggests. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-11595367\/Covid-variant-XBB-1-5-makes-HALF-cases-worst-hit-places-reached-area.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>A new\u00a0Omicron subvariant that is starting to sweep the UK is behind up to half of all Covid cases in the worst-hit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"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\/40505","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=40505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40506,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40505\/revisions\/40506"}],"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=40505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}