{"id":129371,"date":"2021-10-22T09:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T16:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/russia-reports-cases-of-more-contagious-covid-19-delta-subvariant"},"modified":"2021-10-22T09:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T16:22:17","slug":"russia-reports-cases-of-more-contagious-covid-19-delta-subvariant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/russia-reports-cases-of-more-contagious-covid-19-delta-subvariant","title":{"rendered":"Russia reports cases of more contagious COVID-19 Delta subvariant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russia-reports-cases-of-more-contagious-covid-19-delta-subvariant2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A more contagious subvariant of Detla has been found.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>MOSCOW, Oct 21 (Reuters) \u2014 Russia has reported \u201cisolated cases\u201d of COVID-19 with a subvariant of the Delta variant that is believed to be even more contagious, the state consumer watchdog\u2019s senior researcher said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The researcher, Kamil Khafizov, said the AY.4.2 subvariant may be around 10% more infectious than the original Delta \u2014 which has driven new cases and deaths to a series of record daily highs in Russia \u2014 and could ultimately replace it.<\/p>\n<p>However, he said this was likely to be a slow process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A more contagious subvariant of Detla has been found. MOSCOW, Oct 21 (Reuters) \u2014 Russia has reported \u201cisolated cases\u201d of COVID-19 with a subvariant of the Delta variant that is believed to be even more contagious, the state consumer watchdog\u2019s senior researcher said on Thursday. The researcher, Kamil Khafizov, said the AY.4.2 subvariant may be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129371","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}