{"id":601151,"date":"2026-11-10T11:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T08:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=601151"},"modified":"2026-11-10T11:21:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T08:21:28","slug":"no-cases-of-new-covid-19-variant-pj-2-1-reported-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/no-cases-of-new-covid-19-variant-pj-2-1-reported-in-belarus","title":{"rendered":"No Cases of New COVID-19 Variant PJ.2.1 Reported in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>No cases of infection with the PJ.2.1 coronavirus variant have been reported in Belarus so far. The Ministry of Health is monitoring the situation, the Republican Centre for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Public Health <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/rcheph\/4908\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PJ.2.1 belongs to the Omicron lineage. According to the centre, it was first detected in Canada in early May. The variant was later identified in the United States, Spain, Australia and Singapore. There is currently no evidence that PJ.2.1 causes more severe COVID-19 or increases the risk of hospitalization or death.<\/p>\n<p>The incidence of acute respiratory infections in Belarus remains low and, according to the centre, continues to decline. It is 13% lower than at the same time last year. Children account for 63.7% of cases. Rhinoviruses, parainfluenza viruses and bocaviruses are the most frequently detected pathogens. Sporadic cases of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 and COVID-19 are also being reported in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/publications\/m\/item\/global-respiratory-virus-activity--weekly-update-n--602\">World Health Organization<\/a>, the global influenza test positivity rate remained below 10% in the week ending October 25. Influenza A was the predominant type among the viruses detected. The proportion of positive SARS-CoV-2 tests increased slightly but remained low.<\/p>\n<p>On November 6, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecdc.europa.eu\/en\/publications-data\/weekly-respiratory-virus-update-week-44-october-2026\">reported<\/a> that influenza activity in EU and European Economic Area countries remained low, although it was increasing in several countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No cases of infection with the PJ.2.1 coronavirus variant have been reported in Belarus so far. The Ministry of Health is monitoring the situation, the Republican Centre for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Public Health reported. PJ.2.1 belongs to the Omicron lineage. According to the centre, it was first detected in Canada in early May. The variant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":601167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/6af2d40d8235c.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"No Cases of New COVID-19 Variant PJ.2.1 Reported in Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601152,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601151\/revisions\/601152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}