'Report symptoms, increase testing': Govt advisory amid Covid spike, new JN.1 variant
New JN.1 variant: Symptoms and precautions He underlined that “due to consistent and collaborative actions between Centre and state governments, we have been able to sustain the trajectory at sustainable low rates". The ministry has listed some strategies for Covid control.
"Considering the upcoming festive season, States were advised to put in place requisite public health measures and other arrangements to minimize risk of increase in transmission of the disease by adherence to maintenance of respiratory hygiene," it said. Also Read: Singapore government implements preventive norms for travellers amid Covid scare The states have also been asked to monitor report all influenza-like illness (ILI) and severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) cases in all health facilities for an early detection of all the cases.
"States were encouraged to increase number of RT-PCR tests and send positive samples for genome sequencing to Indian SARS COV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) laboratories so as to enable timely detection of new variants, if any, in the country," it said. India's first case of Covid-19 sub-variant JN.1 was detected in Kerala on December 8.
A few states, including Kerala, have recently reported an uptick in the Covid cases. The specific case of JN.1 was identified in an RT-PCR positive sample from Karakulam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, on 8th December 2023.
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