{"id":816,"date":"2021-01-03T22:27:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T22:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=816"},"modified":"2021-01-03T22:27:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T22:27:20","slug":"contagious-variant-of-covid-19-known-as-20b-501y-v1-detected-in-nz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"Contagious variant of Covid-19 known as 20B\/501Y.V1 detected in NZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"storyPage\">\n<p>The Ministry of Health yesterday announced that the\u00a0 genome sequencing for six cases in December have been found to match the recently-identified, more contagious variant of Covid-19 known as 20B\/501Y.V1, first detected in the UK.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"storyPage\">\n<p>The cases were transferred to the Auckland quarantine facility. Four of those six cases have now recovered and were able to leave the facility.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"storyPage\">\n<p>Five of the six cases travelled from the UK, and the remaining case travelled from South Africa. All arrived in New Zealand between December 13 and 25.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"storyPage\">\n<p>The Ministry of Health said there was &#8220;no increased risk to the community&#8221;, with infection prevention protocols still in place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"storyPage\">\n<p>&#8220;The cases are all cared for with the same high level of infection prevention measures as all Covid-19 positive cases, with daily health checks and use of PPE,&#8221; the Ministry of Health said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"storyPage\">\n<p>&#8220;The UK variant is more transmissible than other variants of the virus but there is no evidence at this stage that the length of the infection period is any different to any other variant of Covid-19, nor is it more likely to produce severe illness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>-TVNZ<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Health yesterday announced that the\u00a0 genome sequencing for six cases in December have been found to match the recently-identified, more contagious variant of Covid-19 known as 20B\/501Y.V1, first detected in the UK. The cases were transferred to the Auckland quarantine facility. Four of those six cases have now recovered and were able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","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=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}