{"id":117665,"date":"2020-12-26T21:22:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T05:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/first-two-cases-of-more-contagious-covid-virus-detected-in-canada"},"modified":"2020-12-26T21:22:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T05:22:17","slug":"first-two-cases-of-more-contagious-covid-virus-detected-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/first-two-cases-of-more-contagious-covid-virus-detected-in-canada","title":{"rendered":"First two cases of more contagious COVID virus detected in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-two-cases-of-more-contagious-covid-virus-detected-in-canada2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Officials in Canada\u2019s most populous province have confirmed the first two known Canadian cases of a more contagious variant of COVID-19 that was first identified in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>The province\u2019s associate chief medical officer says that the cases are a couple from Durham Region, just east of Toronto, with no known travel history, exposure or high-risk contacts.<\/p>\n<p>The new variant is believed to spread more easily and faster than the original version of the disease but is not believed to be more deadly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Officials in Canada\u2019s most populous province have confirmed the first two known Canadian cases of a more contagious variant of COVID-19 that was first identified in the United Kingdom. The province\u2019s associate chief medical officer says that the cases are a couple from Durham Region, just east of Toronto, with no known [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}