{"id":8310,"date":"2020-12-23T11:01:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T16:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=8310"},"modified":"2020-12-23T11:01:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T16:01:42","slug":"covid-19-uk-confirms-two-cases-of-another-more-transmissible-variant-linked-to-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=8310","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: UK confirms two cases of another &#8216;more transmissible&#8217; variant linked to South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/covid-19-uk-confirms-two-cases-of-another-new-variant-linked-to-south-africa-12171410\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2372003280022904607_4957469.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a>Two cases of a new, &#8220;more transmissible&#8221; COVID-19 variant linked to South Africa have been identified in the UK, the health secretary has said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/covid-19-uk-confirms-two-cases-of-another-new-variant-linked-to-south-africa-12171410\">COVID-19: UK confirms two cases of another &#8216;more transmissible&#8217; variant linked to South Africa<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oh, goody!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two cases of a new, &#8220;more transmissible&#8221; COVID-19 variant linked to South&#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":[169,21],"class_list":["post-8310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-covid-19","tag-uh-oh","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310","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=8310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}