{"id":3965,"date":"2023-12-19T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3965"},"modified":"2024-08-03T00:05:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T04:05:05","slug":"who-designates-jn-1-as-separate-covid-19-variant-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/who-designates-jn-1-as-separate-covid-19-variant-of-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO designates JN.1 as separate COVID-19 variant of interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to its rapid growth and potential to add to the respiratory virus burden in Northern Hemisphere countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) today designated JN.1, part of the BA.2.86 SARS-CoV-2 lineage, as its own variant of interest.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came following an assessment from the WHO\u2019s Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 evolution.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf7 Photo by <abbr title=\"Pan American Health Organization\">PAHO<\/abbr>\/<abbr title=\"World Health Organization\">WHO<\/abbr>, licensed under Creative Commons <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noopener\">CC&nbsp;BY-NC-ND&nbsp;2.0 DEED licence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to its rapid growth and potential to add to the respiratory virus burden in Northern Hemisphere countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) today designated JN.1, part of the BA.2.86 SARS-CoV-2 lineage, as its own variant of interest.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came following an assessment from the WHO\u2019s Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 evolution.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/who-designates-jn-1-as-separate-covid-19-variant-of-interest\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WHO designates JN.1 as separate COVID-19 variant of interest<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[181,18,651,55,8,14,47,283],"class_list":["post-3965","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-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-variants","tag-world-health-organization","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965","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=3965"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5346,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions\/5346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}