{"id":51724,"date":"2020-12-26T08:45:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T13:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=51724"},"modified":"2020-12-26T10:47:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T15:47:03","slug":"british-coronavirus-variant-found-in-traveller-to-sweden-health-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/british-coronavirus-variant-found-in-traveller-to-sweden-health-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"British coronavirus variant found in traveller to Sweden \u2013 health agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbritish-coronavirus-variant-found-in-traveller-to-sweden-health-agency%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=51724&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"329\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2020-12-26T133528Z_2_LYNXMPEGBP05S_RTROPTP_0_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-SWEDEN_1-329x210.jpg?x53567\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>December 26, 2020<\/p>\n<p>STOCKHOLM (Reuters) &#8211;     The new variant of the coronavirus circulating in Britain has been detected in Sweden after a traveller from Britain fell ill on arrival and tested positive for it, the Swedish Health Agency said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Health Agency official Sara Byfors told a news conference the traveller, who was not identified, had kept isolated after arrival to Sweden and that no further positive cases had so far been detected.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new variant is thought to be more transmissible than others currently circulating. <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-spot\"><!-- AuctionX Display platform tag START --><\/p>\n<div id=\"24697x300x250x4195x_ADSLOT1\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- AuctionX Display platform tag END --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-pw-desk=\"med_rect_atf\"><\/div>\n<div data-pw-mobi=\"med_rect_atf\"><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sweden imposed travel restrictions earlier this month on passengers from Britain amid concerns over the variant. Similar measures have been taken by several other countries in the EU and across the world. [L8N2J3105] <\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Niklas Pollard; editing by Johan Ahlander)<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-spot\"><!-- AuctionX Display platform tag START --><\/p>\n<div id=\"24697x300x250x4195x_ADSLOT1\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- AuctionX Display platform tag END --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-pw-desk=\"med_rect_atf\"><\/div>\n<div data-pw-mobi=\"med_rect_atf\"><\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/british-coronavirus-variant-found-in-traveller-to-sweden-health-agency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British coronavirus variant found in traveller to Sweden &#8211; health agency<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One America News Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 26, 2020 STOCKHOLM (Reuters) \u2013 The new variant of the coronavirus circulating in Britain has been detected in Sweden after a traveller from Britain fell ill on arrival and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2180763,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2020-12-26T133528Z_2_LYNXMPEGBP05S_RTROPTP_0_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-SWEDEN_1-329x210.jpg?x53567","fifu_image_alt":"British coronavirus variant found in traveller to Sweden \u2013 health agency","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2020-12-26T133528Z_2_LYNXMPEGBP05S_RTROPTP_0_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-SWEDEN_1-329x210.jpg?x53567","fifu_image_alt":"British coronavirus variant found in traveller to Sweden \u2013 health agency","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2180763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}