{"id":44741,"date":"2026-03-28T02:53:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=44741"},"modified":"2026-03-28T02:53:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:53:43","slug":"a-new-covid-variant-nicknamed-cicada-is-popping-up-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=44741","title":{"rendered":"A new COVID variant \u2014 nicknamed \u2018Cicada\u2019 \u2014 is popping up in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/a-new-covid-variant--nicknamed-cicada--is-popping-up-in-the-us-what-does-that-mean-for-canada\/article_b8b13892-366d-428e-a0ff-c5cc5fe44e18.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6865800fa43cd.image_.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:272px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>BA.3.2 was first detected in South Africa in 2024, but is now seeing a steady increase of cases worldwide. Ontario has seen only a few cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/a-new-covid-variant--nicknamed-cicada--is-popping-up-in-the-us-what-does-that-mean-for-canada\/article_b8b13892-366d-428e-a0ff-c5cc5fe44e18.html\">A new COVID variant \u2014 nicknamed \u2018Cicada\u2019 \u2014 is popping up in the U.S.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA.3.2 was first detected in South Africa in 2024, but is now&#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":[2245,652,169,21],"class_list":["post-44741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-ba-3-2","tag-cicadas","tag-covid-19","tag-uh-oh","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44741","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=44741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44744,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44741\/revisions\/44744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}