{"id":248,"date":"2023-08-09T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=248"},"modified":"2023-08-25T12:56:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T16:56:56","slug":"who-issues-standing-recommendations-for-covid-details-omicron-eg-5-variant-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/who-issues-standing-recommendations-for-covid-details-omicron-eg-5-variant-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO issues standing recommendations for COVID, details Omicron EG.5 variant risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>CIDRAP<\/h2>\n<h2>August&nbsp;9, 2023<\/h2>\n<p>In a pair of new developments today, the World Health Organization (WHO) released standing recommendations for battling COVID-19 and released a risk assessment for the EG.5 Omicron variant, elevating it to a variant of interest (VOI) and noting that may drive a rise in cases and become dominant.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cidrap.umn.edu\/covid-19\/who-issues-standing-recommendations-covid-details-omicron-eg5-variant-risk\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.cidrap.umn.edu\/covid-19\/who-issues-standing-recommendations-covid-details-omicron-eg5-variant-risk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3>CIDRAP<\/h3>\n<h3>August&nbsp;9, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/who-issues-standing-recommendations-for-covid-details-omicron-eg-5-variant-risk\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WHO issues standing recommendations for COVID, details Omicron EG.5 variant risk<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,57,54,53,55,14,47,58,56],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-eg-5","tag-eg-5-1","tag-eris","tag-omicron","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-variants","tag-variants-of-interest","tag-who","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}