Dr Randeep Guleria, former AIIMS director, stated that the new Covid sub-variant JN.1 is spreading rapidly but not causing severe infections or hospitalizations.
The emergence of a new subvariant of coronavirus, JN.1, in Kerala has made people anxious. Descended from the Omicron BA.2.86 variant, JN.1 carries mutations in the spike protein that may make it more transmissible and able to evade immunity, say doctors.
The Philippine Genome Center (PGC) on Monday said the increase in COVID-19 cases in the past weeks may be attributed to the Omicron subvariant BA.5 which now comprises about 85% of their sequenced samples.