India has recorded a complete of 4,097 lively Covid-19 cases, based on Union Health Ministry knowledge. As per official knowledge, six deaths have been reported within the nation within the final 24 hours – two in Maharashtra, and one every in Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala, and West Bengal.

Dr Soumya Swaminathan, Former DG, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has warned that the JN.1 Covid-19 variant is extra transmissible, and infectious, as in comparison with different variants. The well being knowledgeable cited “sure mutations” for the JN.1 Covid-19 variant’s transmissibility.

Swaminathan stated that the JN.1 Covid-19 variant belongs to the Omicron household, the identical variant that drove the third Covid wave in India.

However, Swaminathan additionally assured, “the general public well being danger continues to be low within the sense that as a result of all of us have immunity now due to the vaccines and the pure infections, we have had prior to now, and that immunity nonetheless appears to be fairly sturdy”.

“It (the vaccine-induced immunity against Covid-19) is still protecting most of us from getting severely ill. What we are seeing now is a surge of infections and because the testing has been stepped up in the recent few days, as well as the genomics surveillance, the more we test, the more we are going to detect, and also we’re going to find more JN 1. variant in the country…”

Ahead of the New Year, each centre and state governments are conserving a vigilant eye on the brand new Covid variant JN.1. As many as 145 Covid-19 sub-variant JN.1 have been detected within the nation as of 28 December.

All the states’ well being ministers are assessing the preparedness of the hospitals. The Maharashtra authorities on Thursday requested individuals and establishments within the state to stay alert for the following 10 to fifteen days. Kerala reported 78 new circumstances, adopted by Gujarat at 34.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has categorised JN.1 as a separate “variant of interest” given its quickly growing unfold however stated it poses a “low” world public well being danger.

Covid-19 variant JN.1 Symptoms

Senior marketing consultant in Chest Medicine at Delhi’s Ganga Ram Hospital, Dr Ujjwal Prakash has defined that JN.1 is much like different variants and sub-variants noticed globally.

Common signs embrace fever, runny nostril, sore throat, headache.

Some may face delicate gastrointestinal signs.

As per Dr Prakash, some sufferers might witness delicate higher respiratory signs which usually enhance inside 4 to 5 days.

As per media studies, some signs of Covid variant JN.1 may embrace excessive fatigue, lack of urge for food, nausea, lack of style or odor.