Key Points
On December 8, Kerala found a case of COVID-19 sub-variant JN.1, PTI reported citing officials..
A 79-year-old woman's sample had tested positive for influenza-like illness (ILI) on November 18, and that she had recovered from COVID-19...
According to the reports, over 90 per cent of COVID-19 cases in India right now are mild and are being treated at home...
Where JN.1 has been discovered in Kerala, surveillance has been conducted by the India SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG), a multi-laboratory, multi-agency, pan-Indian network tasked with sequencing and monitoring new dangerous Covid-19 variants...
"India is keeping a vigil and that's the reason no hospitalisation or severe disease has been reported so far," ANI quoted Arora...
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