{"id":144039,"date":"2021-12-25T18:07:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T09:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=144039&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-12-25T18:09:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T09:09:24","slug":"first-case-of-omicron-strain-confirmed-in-fukuoka","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/first-case-of-omicron-strain-confirmed-in-fukuoka\/","title":{"rendered":"First Case Of Omicron Strain Confirmed In Fukuoka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to officials in Fukuoka Prefecture, a person living in the prefecture was confirmed today as infected with the Omicron strain, a new variant of the new coronavirus. This is the first confirmed case of a patient with the Omicron strain. Since the infected person had not traveled overseas, it\u2019s believed to be a community-acquired infection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/fukuoka-news\/20211225\/5010014334.html\">NHK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-144040\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/omicron-fukuoka.jpg?resize=1024%2C560&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/omicron-fukuoka.jpg?resize=1024%2C560&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/omicron-fukuoka.jpg?resize=300%2C164&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/omicron-fukuoka.jpg?resize=768%2C420&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/omicron-fukuoka.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to officials in Fukuoka Prefecture, a person living in the prefecture was confirmed today as infected with the Omicron strain, a new variant of the new coronavirus. This is the first confirmed case of a patient with the Omicron strain. Since the infected person had not traveled overseas, it\u2019s believed to be a community-acquired infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":144040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[5175],"class_list":["post-144039","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-corona","location-fukuoka-city","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/144039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}