{"id":48688,"date":"2023-08-16T12:47:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T12:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=48688"},"modified":"2023-08-16T12:47:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T12:47:33","slug":"scientists-call-for-brits-to-wear-masks-again-due-to-startling-new-covid-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/16\/scientists-call-for-brits-to-wear-masks-again-due-to-startling-new-covid-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists call for Brits to wear masks again due to startling new Covid variant"},"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-23830\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/masks-FFp2-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/masks-FFp2-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/masks-FFp2-500x352.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/masks-FFp2.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have called for people to start wearing face masks again amid a worrying\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/coronavirus-testing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Covid-19\u00a0<\/a>variant &#8216;mutation&#8217;.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/scientists-call-for-brits-to-wear-\"> 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>Scientists have called for people to start wearing face masks again amid a worrying\u00a0Covid-19\u00a0variant &#8216;mutation&#8217;. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48688","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\/09\/mask.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48688","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=48688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48689,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48688\/revisions\/48689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}