Covid-19 JN.1 News Highlights: The total number of active cases of COVID-19 in India stood at 4,093 with Kerala emerging as the largest contributor. Goa reported the largest single-day spike in COVID-19 JN.1 subvariant cases ahead of New Year celebrations
Covid-19 JN.1 News Highlights: The addition of 412 fresh Covid cases took India’s active cases tally to 4,093, Health Ministry stated on Wednesday. Three new fatalities reported from Karnataka and Gujarat took the death toll due to the viral disease to 5,33,340, as per the ministry’s data updated at 8 am.
At present, India’s Covid case tally stands at 4,50,10,189, whereas the national recovery rate stands at 98.81 percent, according to the ministry’s website. The Covid fatality rate stands at 1.19 percent.
Amid growing concerns around the rising cases of COVID-19 sub-variant JN.1, so far a total of 109 cases have been detected in India till Wednesday.
The highest contributor of the cases is Goa with a spike of 34 cases reported in a single day on Monday.
As per the daily data of last 24 hours released on Wednesday, a maximum of 36 cases of the new variant were reported from Gujarat, 34 were reported from Karnataka, 14 from Goa, 9 from Maharashtra, 6 from Kerala, and, four from Rajasthan. In addition to this, Tamil Nadu reported four Covid-19 new variant cases and Telangana reported two, reported ANI citing sources.
In a sigh of relief, most of the cases reported don’t represent any clustering in areas. Moreover, most of the JN.1 subvariant cases have mild symptoms.
Meanwhile, the total number of active cases of COVID-19 in the country stood at 4,054, with the highest number of cases coming from Kerala.
“Thirty-seven COVID-19 cases are from Goa, 344 from Karnataka, 3128 from Kerala, and 50 from Maharashtra,” according to Health Ministry data.
