{"id":4293,"date":"2024-01-10T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T19:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4293"},"modified":"2024-01-13T13:03:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T18:03:01","slug":"latest-covid-19-variant-wrestles-its-way-to-the-top-in-alberta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/latest-covid-19-variant-wrestles-its-way-to-the-top-in-alberta\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest COVID-19 variant wrestles its way to the top in Alberta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new COVID-19 variant appears to be on its way to taking over in Alberta, with one expert predicting it likely already accounts for the lion\u2019s share of the province\u2019s cases.<\/p>\n<p>JN.1 is an offshoot of BA.2.86, which has evolved, like many of its predecessors, to better evade our immune defences.<\/p>\n<p>It is now the dominant strain in Canada. Data from the Public Health Agency of Canada shows it accounted for about 66 per cent of COVID-19 cases nationwide by the end of December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new COVID-19 variant appears to be on its way to taking over in Alberta, with one expert predicting it likely already accounts for the lion\u2019s share of the province\u2019s cases.<\/p>\n<p>JN.1 is an offshoot of BA.2.86, which has evolved, like many of its predecessors, to better evade our immune defences.<\/p>\n<p>It is now the dominant strain in Canada. Data from the Public Health Agency of Canada shows it accounted for about 66 per cent of COVID-19 cases nationwide by the end of December.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/latest-covid-19-variant-wrestles-its-way-to-the-top-in-alberta\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Latest COVID-19 variant wrestles its way to the top in Alberta<\/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":[315,181,96,18,651,182,258,14,230,47],"class_list":["post-4293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-ba-2-86","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-jn-1","tag-pirola","tag-public-health-agency-of-canada","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-statistics","tag-variants","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293","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=4293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4295,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293\/revisions\/4295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}