{"id":9555,"date":"2022-10-17T05:20:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T23:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9555"},"modified":"2025-03-29T14:02:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T08:32:57","slug":"omicron-bf7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/omicron-bf7\/","title":{"rendered":"Omicron BF.7"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Omicron BF. 7 is the latest sub-variant of the Omicron variant, first detected in Northwest China&#8217;s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.<\/li>\n<li>It is also known as the\u00a0<strong>&#8216;Omicron spawn&#8217;.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This new variant is fast spreading to several other countries including the United States, UK, Australia and Belgium.<\/li>\n<li>Being a sub-variant of Omicron BA.5, BF.7 reportedly has enhanced immunity evasion in comparison to its parental strain.<\/li>\n<li>This means that people who have been infected before or have taken the COVID-19 vaccines can get infected with BF.7.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Symptoms:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The symptoms associated with the BF.7 sub-variant is similar to other sub-variants of Omicron.<\/li>\n<li>This includes headache, persistent cough, changes in sense of smell, chest pain, hearing loss and shaking,\u00a0abdominal pain, diarrhoea, runny nose, sore throat and fatigue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/life-style\/health-fitness\/health-news\/omicrons-latest-variant-bf-7-experts-fear-a-new-covid-wave-this-diwali-here-are-the-symptoms-to-watch-out-for\/photostory\/94908456.cms?picid=94908469\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Times of India<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omicron BF. 7 is the latest sub-variant of the Omicron variant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}