Covid-19 JN.1 News LIVE Updates: Addition of 412 fresh Covid cases took India’s active cases tally to 4,170, Health Ministry stated on Tuesday. Three new fatalities reported from Karnataka took the death toll due to the viral disease to 5,33,337, as per the ministry’s data updated at 8 am.
At present, the number of Covid cases in India stands at 4,50,09,660, while the national recovery rate is 98. 81%, according to the ministry’s website. The Covid fatality rate is 1. 19 percent.
Amid growing concerns about emerging cases of the JN. 1 subvariant of COVID-19, a total of 63 cases of the subvariant have so far been detected in India on Sunday.
The highest contributor of the cases is Goa with a spike of 34 cases reported in a single day, ANI reported citing Health Ministry sources on Monday.
In addition to Goa, nine are from Maharashtra, eight from Karnataka, six from Kerala, four from Tamil Nadu and two from Telangana. In a sigh of relief, most of the reported cases constitute a cluster in certain areas. In addition, most JN. 1 subvariants have mild symptoms.
Meanwhile, the total number of active COVID-19 cases in the country was 4,054, with the number of cases coming from Kerala.
“Thirty-seven cases of COVID-19 are from Goa, 344 from Karnataka, 3,128 from Kerala and 50 from Maharashtra,” according to data from the Ministry of Health.
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