India Logs 145 Sub-Variant Cases So Far, Total Count Of New COVID-19 Infection Goes Up To 798

On Friday morning, the Union Health Ministry’s bulletin board showed that India reported 798 fresh cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, with 145 cases of the sub-variant of JN.1. With the new cases, the active caseload in the country stands at 4,091. Unfortunately, five deaths due to COVID-19 infection were also reported across the country. Of these two, two were from Kerala, and each was from Maharashtra, Puducherry, and Tamil Nadu. The total number of deaths due to coronavirus reached 5,33,351 in the country.

Of the 145 cases of the coronavirus sub-variant JN.1 reported in the country till December 28, 2023, 41 were from Kerala, 36 were from Gujarat, 34 were from Karnataka, 14 were from Goa, nine from Maharashtra, four from Rajasthan, four from Tamil Nadu, two from Telangana, and one from Delhi.

However, Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj informed that the 50-year-old person diagnosed with the JN.1 sub-variant in the national capital has recovered, and there were no active cases of the variant in the city.

The WHO previously classified the JN.1 sub-variant of coronavirus as a variant of interest (VOI) as part of the BA.2.86 sub-lineages, the parent lineage that is classified as a VOI. In recent weeks, JN.1 cases have continued to be reported from multiple countries, and its prevalence has rapidly increased globally.