{"id":48923,"date":"2023-08-25T14:54:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T14:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=48923"},"modified":"2023-08-25T14:54:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T14:54:28","slug":"uk-covid-cases-nearly-double-in-a-month-amid-rise-of-two-mutant-variants-official-figures-suggest-as-ba-2-86-continues-to-sweep-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/25\/uk-covid-cases-nearly-double-in-a-month-amid-rise-of-two-mutant-variants-official-figures-suggest-as-ba-2-86-continues-to-sweep-the-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Covid cases nearly DOUBLE in a month amid rise of two mutant variants, official figures suggest as BA.2.86 continues to sweep the globe"},"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>Covid cases in England have almost doubled in a month, MailOnline can reveal, amid fears a new heavily-mutated Covid variant dubbed the &#8216;real deal&#8217;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-12436697\/UK-Covid-cases-nearly-DOUBLE-month-amid-rise-two-mutant-variants-official-figures-suggest-BA-2-86-continues-sweep-globe.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>Covid cases in England have almost doubled in a month, MailOnline can reveal, amid fears a new heavily-mutated Covid variant dubbed the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48923","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\/07\/variant-names.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48923","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=48923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48936,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48923\/revisions\/48936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}