NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the Kerala government's decision to hold physical exams for Class XI from September 6 as the state continues to report a rising trend in Covid infections. Calling the situation in the southern state "alarming", the apex court said that children cannot be exposed to the risk when
Till Wednesday, India's active Covid tally stood at 4,565. Of these, the highest number of cases was in Kerala (1,712), followed by Karnataka (1,245), Maharashtra (731), Tamil Nadu (181), and Andhra Pradesh (119).
Dr Soumya Swaminathan warns that the JN.1 Covid-19 variant is more transmissible and infectious than other variants. However, she assures that the public health risk is still low due to immunity from vaccines and past infections.