{"id":622381,"date":"2022-07-01T12:31:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T12:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=622381"},"modified":"2022-07-01T12:31:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T12:31:42","slug":"covid-19-infections-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/covid-19-infections-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 Infections Rise!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Covid-19 is back in the UK with some more cases getting told. There has been another rise and this one is due to the Omnicron variant and sub-varients. This is due to the virus being easy to contact and easy to infect. The UK has seen a massive increase and could see a bigger increase in cases soon! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The weekly coronavirus infection stats show figures of 2.3m infections that were recorded in the week of 14th June, which is reportedly up from 1.7m the week beforehand!<\/p>\n<p>This means that Covid-19 infections are now up by 32% in a week rather than in a few months, this could indicate that Covid-19 could be coming back with a terrible infection rate!<\/p>\n<p>Across the UK, one in 30 people are said to have Covid-19, however, Scotland has reported that 1 in 18 people have Covid-19.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_622382\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-622382\" class=\"wp-image-622382 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/shutterstock_1670462338-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/shutterstock_1670462338-2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/shutterstock_1670462338-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/shutterstock_1670462338-2-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-622382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: <a class=\"jss504 jss73 jss75 jss74\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/g\/thanakorn+hormniam\">Horth Rasur<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is believed that people can catch the newer variants even if they have had coronavirus recently, which is terrible news for those who think that they are currently immune.<\/p>\n<p>With the rise in cases, the UK will stay with the living with Covid-19 plan, however, this could change if things get too big in the UK, however, PM Boris Johnson has focused his attention on the Ukraine war!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Banner and Image Credit:<a class=\"jss2071 jss73 jss75 jss74\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/g\/scaliger\">Viacheslav Lopatin<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19 is back in the UK with some more cases getting told. There has been another rise and this one is due to the Omnicron variant and sub-varients. This is due to the virus being easy to contact and easy to infect. The UK has seen a massive increase and could see a bigger increase&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":622383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1844,1853,1851,2071],"class_list":["post-622381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-news","tag-covid-19-updates","tag-latest-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622384,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622381\/revisions\/622384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}