{"id":75428,"date":"2025-05-20T10:45:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T10:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=75428"},"modified":"2025-05-20T10:45:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T10:45:23","slug":"what-is-jn-1-covid-variant-driving-fresh-rise-in-infections-across-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/20\/what-is-jn-1-covid-variant-driving-fresh-rise-in-infections-across-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"What is JN.1 Covid variant driving fresh rise in infections across Asia?"},"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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1F6MCW.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Health workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) take part in a mock drill to check preparations of Covid-19 facilities at JLNM hospital in downtown Srinagar on 10 April 2023 (AFP via Getty Images)\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Covid-19<\/a>\u00a0infections are once again rising in parts of Asia, with a fresh wave in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/singapore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Singapore<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/hong-kong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Hong Kong<\/a>\u00a0linked to the fast-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/health\/covid-strain-jn1-variant-symptoms-b2467037.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">spreading JN.1 variant<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/what-is-jn-1-covid-variant-driving-fresh-rise-in-infections-across-asia\/ar-AA1F6Rjn?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=49e804e781b04bc389e86e4beca0e0a9&amp;ei=11\">\u00a0Read 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-19\u00a0infections are once again rising in parts of Asia, with a fresh wave in\u00a0Singapore\u00a0and\u00a0Hong Kong\u00a0linked to the fast-spreading JN.1 variant.\u00a0 \u00a0Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75428","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\/2025\/05\/JN.1-variant.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75428","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=75428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75430,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75428\/revisions\/75430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}