West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has advised people to wear masks as a precaution against Covid amid concerns about the new variant of coronavirus, JN.1.
JN.1 descended from BA.2.86, which is a sublineage of the omicron BA.2 variant is now dominant in the United States (US). The highly contagious omicron subvariant now accounts for over 60% of all infections in the country. TheHealthSite.com
The coronavirus after entering your body kills the healthy cells - so your lungs begin to fill with fluid making it hard for you to breathe. TheHealthSite.com
A new COVID-19 subvariant, known as JN.1, has emerged and rapidly become the prevailing strain across Canada and health experts are cautioning it may be more infectious.