{"id":805,"date":"2020-12-30T01:24:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T01:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=805"},"modified":"2020-12-30T01:24:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T01:24:11","slug":"us-reports-first-case-of-highly-infectious-covid-19-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"US reports first case of highly-infectious Covid-19 variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"storyPage first-page\">\n<p>The first reported US case of the Covid-19 variant that&#8217;s been seen in the United Kingdom has been discovered in Colorado, Governor Jared Polis announced today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"storyPage\">\n<p>The variant was found in a man in his 20s who is in isolation southeast of Denver in Elbert County and has no travel history, state health officials said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"storyPage\">\n<p>Elbert County is a mainly rural area of rolling plains at the far edge of the Denver metro area that includes a portion of Interstate 70, the state\u2019s main east-west highway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"storyPage\">\n<p>The Colorado State Laboratory confirmed the virus variant, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was notified.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"storyPage\">\n<p>Scientists in the UK believe the variant is more contagious than previously identified strains. The vaccines being given now are thought to be effective against the variant, Colorado health officials said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p><strong>-tvnz<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first reported US case of the Covid-19 variant that&#8217;s been seen in the United Kingdom has been discovered in Colorado, Governor Jared Polis announced today. The variant was found in a man in his 20s who is in isolation southeast of Denver in Elbert County and has no travel history, state health officials said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}