The World Health Organisation has classified Covid 19 strain JN 1as a separate “variant of interest” given its rapidly increasing spread but said that it poses a “low global public health risk”.
Dr Abhay Tidke, additional district health officer, Zilla Parishad, Pune, said this is for the first time in the year we have reported the lowest active cases and zero hospitalisation due to Covid-19
Ambadekar was accompanied on Monday by Deputy Director of Health (Pune circle) and the nodal officer for Pune district, Dr Radhakrishna Pawar, as they visited the two main state-run hospitals in the city for the two-day nationwide mock Covid drill that began Monday.