{"id":119304,"date":"2021-04-19T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119304"},"modified":"2021-04-19T10:43:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T02:43:02","slug":"covid-19-britain-is-investigating-variant-originating-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119304","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Britain is investigating variant originating in India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/assetsds.cdnedge.bluemix.net\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/big_2\/public\/feature\/images\/2021\/04\/19\/covid.jpg?itok=1C0FngCs&amp;c=d95363da323a6b523270e76aca6e5604\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Health workers carry the body of a man, who died from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), from an ambulance for burial at a graveyard in New Delhi, India<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LONDON, April 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; British health officials are investigating a COVID-19 variant originating in India but as yet they do not have enough evidence to classify it is as a variant of concern, Susan Hopkins of Public Health England (PHE) said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show on BBC television, Hopkins said: &#8220;We have not got enough data about this variant yet to be able to clarify whether it&#8217;s a variant of concern. We have put it as a variant under investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;To escalate it up the ranking we need to know that it&#8217;s increased transmissibility, increased severity, or vaccine-evading, and we just don&#8217;t have that yet, but we&#8217;re looking at the data on a daily basis.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PHE has said it has identified 77 cases of the variant in Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, environment minister George Eustice said Prime Minister Boris Johnson&#8217;s trip to India later this month should go ahead despite rising cases in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is important that business and the business of politics if you like does continue,&#8221; he said, adding that an expert committee periodically reviews decisions about whether to permit travel to certain countries. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health workers carry the body of a man, who died from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), from an ambulance for burial at a graveyard in New Delhi, India LONDON, April 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; British health officials are investigating a COVID-19 variant originating in India but as yet they do not have enough evidence to classify it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":119309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119304"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}