{"id":3489,"date":"2023-11-27T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2023-12-02T16:44:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T21:44:41","slug":"who-upgrades-ba-2-86-to-covid-19-variant-of-interest-as-us-proportions-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/who-upgrades-ba-2-86-to-covid-19-variant-of-interest-as-us-proportions-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO upgrades BA.2.86 to COVID-19 variant of interest as US proportions grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) last week reclassified the Omicron BA.2.86 variant\u2014and its offshoots, including JN.1\u2014as a variant of interest as global proportions grow, including in the United States, where it now makes up about 9% of circulating viruses, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><i class=\"fa fa-camera\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>&nbsp;Image description: Electron microscope image of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles. Photo by: NIAID. Image is licensed under a <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" rel=\"license\">Creative Commons CC BY 2.0 DEED | Attribution 2.0 Generic license<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" rel=\"license\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width: 0;height: 31px;width: 88px\" src=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/by.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) last week reclassified the Omicron BA.2.86 variant\u2014and its offshoots, including JN.1\u2014as a variant of interest as global proportions grow, including in the United States, where it now makes up about 9% of circulating viruses, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/who-upgrades-ba-2-86-to-covid-19-variant-of-interest-as-us-proportions-grow\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WHO upgrades BA.2.86 to COVID-19 variant of interest as US proportions grow<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[181,18,651,55,182,14,51,47,58,283],"class_list":["post-3489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ba-2-86","tag-covid-19","tag-jn-1","tag-omicron","tag-pirola","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-states","tag-variants","tag-variants-of-interest","tag-world-health-organization","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489","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=3489"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3505,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions\/3505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}