{"id":35650,"date":"2021-11-26T05:03:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T05:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/?p=35650"},"modified":"2021-11-26T05:03:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T05:03:21","slug":"covid-19-hong-kong-records-two-cases-of-new-heavily-mutated-variant-which-sparked-intl-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/covid-19-hong-kong-records-two-cases-of-new-heavily-mutated-variant-which-sparked-intl-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Hong Kong records two cases of new heavily mutated variant which sparked int\u2019l alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 75px;height: 75px;border-radius: 50%;background: url(https:\/\/nordot-res.cloudinary.com\/c_limit,w_200,h_200,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/ch\/units\/498503152418440289\/profile_3.png);background-position: center;background-size: cover;vertical-align: middle\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 5px;font-size: 14px;font-weight: bold;vertical-align: middle\">Published by <br \/>Hong Kong Free Press<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px\"><\/div>\n<p>Hong Kong has recorded two infections with a newly identified coronavirus variant that has sparked international concern because its many mutations make it potentially more transmissible and able to evade an immune response. The two patients both served a period of quarantine at the Regal Airport Hotel \u2013 with a traveller from South Africa, where the latest variant was first identified, found to have infected the person in the room next to him. Authorities said that following a whole genome sequencing analysis conducted by the University of Hong Kong (HKU), the new variant was confirmed in both&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"nordot-read-more \" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nordot.app\/836826384521379840?c=819177386184916992\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published by Hong Kong Free Press Hong Kong has recorded two infections with a newly identified coronavirus variant that has sparked international concern because its many mutations make it potentially more transmissible and able to evade an immune response. The two patients both served a period of quarantine at the Regal Airport Hotel \u2013 with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/covid-19-hong-kong-records-two-cases-of-new-heavily-mutated-variant-which-sparked-intl-alert\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Covid-19: Hong Kong records two cases of new heavily mutated variant which sparked int\u2019l alert&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":35652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35651,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35650\/revisions\/35651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}