Covid cases in India: 328 active cases detected in 24 hours; Rajasthan reports 4 cases of JN.1
Covid-19 LIVE updates However, 16 states and union territories including West Bengal, Odisha, and Himachal Pradesh among others have not reported any Covid cases this time. JN.1 Covid variant: Delhi, Kerala, and other states review coronavirus situation According to the health ministry's data, Kerala accounts for 2,606 active cases of the total of 2,997 cases as of Friday 9 am data. Covid cases in Karnataka stand at 105 and in Maharashtra at 53.
JN.1 (BA.2.86.1.1) variant emerged in late 2023 and is descendant of the BA.2.86 lineage (Pirola) of SARS-CoV-2. The JN.1 variant has been reported in the USA, China, Singapore, India and constitutes a modest-yet-notable percentage, projected to potentially encompass 15-29% of circulating variants within the United States. On Thursday, Rajasthan reported two new Covid cases of new sub-variant JN.1, which took the tally of such cases in the state to four.
Until now, Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Delhi, and Goa have found COVID cases of the new sub-variant. JN.1 COVID variant: ‘Let's not take it lightly as…,’ expert says The World Health Organisation (WHO) has classified JN.1 a "variant of interest" given its rapidly increasing spread but said it poses a "low" global public health risk. JN.1 Covid variant: How worried should you be about the new strain? Over the past two weeks, 16 deaths related to Covid-19 were recorded with the victims having serious comorbidities in the country.
But no increase in hospitalisation rate has been witnessed because of the new variant so far. People who are being hospitalised are due to other medical conditions and "COVID-19 is an incidental finding", officials stated. The health ministry has alerted states to take necessary precautionary measures.
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