{"id":9225,"date":"2021-04-15T13:58:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T20:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9225"},"modified":"2021-04-16T13:59:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T20:59:30","slug":"rapid-detection-of-sars-cov-2-variants-of-concern-including-b-1-1-28-p-1-in-british-columbia-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/15\/rapid-detection-of-sars-cov-2-variants-of-concern-including-b-1-1-28-p-1-in-british-columbia-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapid Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern, Including B.1.1.28\/P.1, in British Columbia, Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Surveillance for variants of concern (VOC) in British Columbia, Canada identified 77 VOC samples from 2,618 SARS-CoV-2 positive samples during January to March 2021 (57 B.1.1.7, 7 B.1.351, and 13 P.1 samples). This marked the first detection of the P.1 variant in British Columbia, and the 13 P.1 samples represented an epidemiologic cluster.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Matic et al.\u00a0(Mar 30, 2021). Rapid Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern, Including B.1.1.28\/P.1, in British Columbia, Canada. Emerging Infectious Diseases. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/eid\/article\/27\/6\/21-0532_article%20\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/eid\/article\/27\/6\/21-0532_article<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surveillance for variants of concern (VOC) in British Columbia, Canada identified 77 VOC samples from 2,618 SARS-CoV-2 positive samples during January to March 2021 (57 B.1.1.7, 7 B.1.351, and 13 P.1 samples). This marked the first detection of the P.1 variant in British Columbia, and the 13 P.1 samples represented an epidemiologic cluster. Matic et&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/15\/rapid-detection-of-sars-cov-2-variants-of-concern-including-b-1-1-28-p-1-in-british-columbia-canada\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[159],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-9225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-variants","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9226,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9225\/revisions\/9226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9225"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}