{"id":29167,"date":"2021-02-22T09:49:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T15:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=29167"},"modified":"2021-02-22T09:49:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T15:49:14","slug":"japan-discovers-new-covid-19-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/ceo-life\/health\/japan-discovers-new-covid-19-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan discovers new COVID-19 variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The variant, which the country\u2019s health department said appears to have originated overseas, has infected nearly 100 people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to Reuters, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said that 91 infections of a new coronavirus variant had been documented in the Kanto area of eastern Japan, while two other cases were discovered at airports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt may be more contagious than conventional strains, and if it continues to spread domestically, it could lead to a rapid rise in cases,\u201d Kato told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>The variant is said to have a mutation on the spike protein that could lower the efficacy of vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s National Institute of Infectious Diseases said that the variant appears to have originated overseas, but it is different from other variants circulating in Britain, South Africa and Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Japan has seen over 422,000 cases of the virus and 7,360 deaths since the pandemic began, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/opsdashboard\/index.html#\/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6\">data<\/a>\u00a0from Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The variant, which the country\u2019s health department said appears to  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":29172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,1338],"tags":[3410,20],"class_list":["post-29167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-covid","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29181,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29167\/revisions\/29181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}