{"id":48377,"date":"2023-08-09T16:13:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T16:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=48377"},"modified":"2023-08-09T16:13:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T16:13:31","slug":"who-classifies-eg-5-as-covid-19-variant-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/who-classifies-eg-5-as-covid-19-variant-of-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO classifies EG.5 as COVID-19 &#8216;variant of interest&#8217;"},"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-48321\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Eris-covid-variant-300x175.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Eris-covid-variant-300x175.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Eris-covid-variant-360x210.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Eris-covid-variant.jpeg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization on Wednesday classified the EG.5 coronavirus strain circulating in the United States and China as a &#8220;variant of interest&#8221; but said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/who-classifies-eg-5-as-covid-19-variant-of-interest\/ar-AA1f17AU?ocid=msedgdhp&amp;pc=U531&amp;cvid=46113063e2fc46d5964c998316ba3610&amp;ei=55\">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 World Health Organization on Wednesday classified the EG.5 coronavirus strain circulating in the United States and China as a &#8220;variant of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48377","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\/08\/covid_19fleet.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48377","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=48377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48378,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48377\/revisions\/48378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}