{"id":15357,"date":"2021-11-26T14:51:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T19:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=15357"},"modified":"2021-11-26T14:51:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T19:51:33","slug":"who-classifies-new-covid-variant-as-of-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=15357","title":{"rendered":"WHO classifies new COVID variant as \u2018of concern\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHO names new coronavirus variant Omicron and designates it as a \u2018variant of concern\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/11\/26\/new-covid-variant-triggers-global-alarm-as-who-urges-caution\">WHO classifies new COVID variant as \u2018of concern\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>That escalated quickly.\u00a0 just a few days ago is was a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=15311\">Variant under Monitoring<\/a>.\u00a0 Rocketing up the charts!\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/southern-africa-variant-canada-travel-1.6263898\">Today we closed<\/a> border to a bunch of countries from Africa, as did a lot of other places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO names new coronavirus variant Omicron and designates it as a \u2018variant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[257,989,169,998,21],"class_list":["post-15357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-africa","tag-botswana","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-omicron","tag-uh-oh","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}