JN.1 update: Gurugram reports first COVID-related death in six months, India logs 312 cases so far
ALSO READ: Covid cases LIVE updates Among others, two women, aged 35 and 57, have tested positive for COVID-19. Both of them recently returned from Mumbai. After their health deteriorated, they got tested for COVID-19 and their results came back positive, it said.
"As both women have mild symptoms, they are in home isolation. A doctor is monitoring their health," an official said. According to the INSACOG's data updated on Tuesday, a total of 312 cases of COVID-19 sub-variant JN.1 have been detected in the country, with about 47 percent of them recorded in Kerala.
Ten states and Union territories have so far detected the presence of the JN.1 sub-variant of the virus. These states are Kerala (147), Goa (51), Gujarat (34), Maharashtra (26), Tamil Nadu (22), Delhi (16), Karnataka (eight), Rajasthan (five), Telangana (two) and Odisha (one), according to the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG). Recently, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has classified JN.1 as a separate "variant of interest" given its rapidly-increasing spread but said it poses a "low" global public health risk.
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