{"id":127473,"date":"2025-05-24T08:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T08:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/127473\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T08:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T08:03:10","slug":"new-more-transmissible-covid-19-variant-detected-in-france-as-cases-rise-in-china-hong-kong-and-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/127473\/","title":{"rendered":"New more transmissible Covid-19 variant detected in France as cases rise in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ISTANBUL, May 24 \u2014 France has detected four cases of the new COVID-19 variant NB.1.8.1 for the first time, Anadolu Ajansi reported.<\/p>\n<p>Four cases of the new COVID-19 variant NB.1.8.1 were identified for the first time in France, the broadcaster BFMTV learned from the National Reference Centre in Lyon on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a number of countries that have reported it. We\u2019ve found a few cases in France-not many-four have been identified, both in hospitals and in the community,\u201d virologist Bruno Lina said.<\/p>\n<p>The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) also told BFMTV that as of April, a few NB.1.8.1 cases had been detected across Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>The NB.1.8.1 variant, now dominant in China and spreading in parts of Asia, has caused a rise in COVID-19 cases and hospitalisations in Hong Kong and Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Although it is not believed to cause more severe illness, officials are advising mask use in crowded places and increasing vaccine and treatment supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Early studies suggest the variant is more transmissible due to stronger binding to human cells, but it does not significantly evade immunity compared to other strains. \u2014 Bernama\/Anadolu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ISTANBUL, May 24 \u2014 France has detected four cases of the new COVID-19 variant NB.1.8.1 for the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[1117,2000,299,56249,36,56248],"class_list":{"0":"post-127473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-covid-19","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european-centre-for-disease-prevention-and-control","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-variant-nb-1-8-1"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114561771366528172","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}