{"id":4220,"date":"2024-01-05T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4220"},"modified":"2024-01-07T19:44:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T00:44:09","slug":"jn-1-is-canadas-new-dominant-covid-19-subvariant-heres-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/jn-1-is-canadas-new-dominant-covid-19-subvariant-heres-what-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"JN.1 is Canada\u2019s new dominant COVID-19 subvariant. Here\u2019s what to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new COVID-19 subvariant, known as JN.1, has emerged and is now the prevailing strain across Canada, prompting health experts to caution that it may be more infectious and could even have extra symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the subvariant makes up the highest proportion of all COVID-19 variants, accounting for more than half (51.9 per cent) of all infections in Canada, according to the latest data from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).<\/p>\n<p>JN.1 was first detected in Canada on Oct.&nbsp;9, and since then has rapidly increased.<\/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>A new COVID-19 subvariant, known as JN.1, has emerged and is now the prevailing strain across Canada, prompting health experts to caution that it may be more infectious and could even have extra symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the subvariant makes up the highest proportion of all COVID-19 variants, accounting for more than half (51.9 per cent) of all infections in Canada, according to the latest data from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).<\/p>\n<p>JN.1 was first detected in Canada on Oct.&nbsp;9, and since then has rapidly increased.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/jn-1-is-canadas-new-dominant-covid-19-subvariant-heres-what-to-know\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">JN.1 is Canada\u2019s new dominant COVID-19 subvariant. Here\u2019s what to know<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,18,651,19,245,14,15,47],"class_list":["post-4220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-jn-1","tag-masks","tag-n95-respirators","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vaccines","tag-variants","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220","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=4220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4224,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220\/revisions\/4224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}