{"id":45196,"date":"2020-12-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/23\/first-covid-19-cases-reported-in-antarctica\/"},"modified":"2020-12-29T16:10:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T16:10:33","slug":"first-covid-19-cases-reported-in-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/23\/first-covid-19-cases-reported-in-antarctica\/","title":{"rendered":"First COVID-19 Cases Reported in Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\n<p>Until now, Antarctica had been the only continent that was free of the virus<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, Dec. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A COVID-19 outbreak in Antarctica means that the new coronavirus is now spreading on every continent.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-six people on a research base on Antarctica&#8217;s northernmost Trinity Peninsula tested positive for COVID-19, the Chilean Army said Sunday. Until then, Antarctica had been the only continent that was free of the virus, <em>CNN<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The affected personnel have been isolated and are being closely monitored, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 was found in at least three people on a military vessel that had been supporting the base between late November and early December, <em>CNN<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/12\/22\/world\/antarctica-covid-chile-military-base-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>CNN<\/em> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until now, Antarctica had been the only continent that was free of the virus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":45501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-45196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}